Staycation Saturday - Balloon Festival

Balloon Festival, a week late. Sorry, we were out of town last weekend enjoying our wonderful state and I did not have a chance to update the blog.

I give the Balloon Festival **** four stars for family fun and it is FREE, my favorite price!

Each Labor day weekend the Colorado Balloon Classic comes to town. For three days hot air balloons lift off, or actually I think they call it launch, in the early morning. We don't wake up early to see this, but in the past you could see some balloons on the horizon from our house. Also at night the balloons glow, by lighting the torches and filling the balloons but without lifting off of the ground. It is really beautiful. There are also lots of vendors and yummy food.

The only difficult thing is that the event is extremely weather sensitive. This year only 1 out of 3 mornings did the balloons launch, and only one night did they do the balloon glow. We have been aware of the weather impacting our plans in the past so I made sure to pick the best night according to the weather man.

Unfortunately the weather man was wrong. We arrived to the festival after a storm, and noticed no balloons were setting up. I asked a volunteer and she said "they were canceled for the evening due to the weather, but they were beautiful last night." Gee thanks lady! So after a little pouting, we watched a sham-wow presentation, got a funnel cake, and decided to go.

It was sad, but it is still a great time when it is nice out. Unfortunately my pictures from last year are on the other computer, which is sick with a virus at the moment, but I do have one picture of Jerms parents. Oh well maybe next year.