Saturday, July 4, 2009

Up, Up and NOT!

We were given tickets to go up in a hot air balloon the other day. We were so excited! We got up at 5am to get ready to head into Provo for a once in a lifetime opportunity! We got there and waited... and waited... and waited.

They finally raised the first balloon and made the announcement that there was a possibility that the balloons wouldn't get to fly because the weather was being difficult.

So we waited some more until the announcement that they wouldn't fly but that they would set up more so people could see them. Needless to say we were disappointed but they were still very cool! There was a Smokey the Bear balloon!


Along with a Tony the Tiger balloon

Our Pilot finally started his balloon. Here is Debbie near all the action! The balloon was beautiful but the Pilot wasn't very nice. Other Pilots were letting people get in and taking pictures and raising the balloons a little ways to get up in the air, but ours just took his own picture in his balloon and his kids pictures and then started to take it down. Oh well!



We enjoyed ourselves even though it wasn't perfect! It was a fun early morning date!

1 comment:

Heidi said...

That is such a shame. We were given tickets a few years ago and it was so much fun. Our driver was really nice. Why offer rides if you just plan on doing it for yourself and your kids?