Balloon or Bust

So we rose at 4:30am to get ready to head to Napa, CA for our Hot Air Balloon Ride! We arrived, filled out the "if you die, you can't sue us" form, and awaited our departure! We hopped into one of the vans that was taking us to our launch site! Our driver was very nice! He didn't talk a whole lot, well he did when we asked him questions! We arrived at our 1st launch site (yes our 1st) and they told us it was too "breezy"! Apparently "too breezy" means 7-8 mph on the ground. So they asked if you just had to fly over Napa, the vans would take you back if it was ok to fly over another area load up and they were going to take us to another launch site. So Melissa and I decided to go to the 2nd launch site. On our way there we saw this crazy driver swerving all over the road, it was so bad we called the cops! When we arrived at our second site, the wind picked up and almost blew the balloon away! So we had to reschedule for the next day!

So we decided to switch our plans for Sunday to Saturday and decided to head to San Fran. We went to Chinatown. I bought me a tea set and tried on some very cool silk jackets that I loved! We ate at a restaurant that was kinda hidden which made us laugh. We took a red cable/trolly car to Lombard street. The cable car stopped for a while in the middle of the road so we had our driver take pictures of us hanging off the side of the car! We arrived at the wrong end of Lombard street. We were on the bottom side of the gigantic hill! So we had to trek up this huge hill to get to the part that is all squiggly! Then we jumped (well not literally) on the bus and went to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was dark by this time and it was all lit up by the lights! It was a beautiful site! On our way up the sidewalk, we saw a skunk! It was walking around in the flowers and bushes!