Hot Air Balloons!

I am either brave or crazy.

Or maybe a little bit of both.

Friday morning I got my boys up at 5:30 in the morning so I could take them to see the hot air balloons that were part of Provo's Freedom Festival. We have never been before, and I knew that the boys would LOVE it.

We got there early enough that parking was not a problem. We even got to see the first balloon get inflated. The piggy bank balloon from the Bank of American Fork.

We had fun watching them use their big fans to pump air into the balloon and the pig started to take shape. Then they turned on the burner and the balloon eased up into the morning sky.

This one was my boys' favorite balloon. Can you blame them?

I think my favorite balloon was definitely the Coke bottle balloon! It kind of made me thirsty.

The really cool part was that we got to walk around the field and watch the balloonists in action. I wheeled the boys around in the stroller and we could see everything! We even got to watch them turn on the burner and heat up the air in the balloon. So cool!

The only bummer was that the weather aloft was not good enough for the balloons to launch. Only one of the balloons even got off the ground, and it was tethered so it wouldn't go up too high.

So we were a bit disappointed that the balloons didn't launch. But we did have a fantastic time seeing all the hot air balloons. They were so beautiful!

There were three days of the hot air balloons scheduled, but we didn't make it back to see them again because we were too busy. I actually heard that they didn't launch the balloons on Friday either because it was too windy!

We will definitely have to go to see the hot air balloons again next year... and hopefully we will get to see them fly!