4:30am two days in a row is no bueno for this girl! But we got up and at 'em! We arrived, re-signed the "if you die, you can't sue us" forms, and headed off to the launch site. This time the cards were in our favor! They started filling up the balloon with hot air! They are so huge! There were 16 of us in the balloon...4 in each of the corners of the basket! It is the largest type of passenger basket! We had to climb over the basket to get in! We were next to a very sweet couple! All of a sudden we looked down and we were like 10 feet off the ground! You couldn't even really tell you were floating! It was crazy! The sun was jusst barely coming up over the mountains to the east! Fog was barely covering the tips of the mountains on both sides. The vineyards varied in color, size, and direction creating such a beautiful display on the ground. There were about 8-10 other balloons in the air at the same time! So we could watch them rise and fall in the air! We travelled a whole 2.7 mph! It was such a neat experience! It was awesome to see God's creation from above!
this is one of the things on my list of "Things I WILL do in my lifetime"! Check! It is so cool to know i am accomplishing things on my list! :-)
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