Balloon Fiesta!

The annual Balloon Fiesta kicked off the day we were leaving. We went down the street to watch one take off.







There it goes.











You can't see from these pix, but you can see Albuquerque from my brother's house and the valley is filled with close to 50 hot air balloons--they all take off around the same time early in the morning.






Up, up and away-ay, in my beautiful, my beautiful baaaa-loooooon!











After we watched one take off down the street, another one landed just two houses down! The girls got to get in the basket and they revved the hot air up for them.





Then they deflated the balloon and packed it up, ready for the next day's flight. The girls got to help roll it up.