I went to the Albuquerque Balloon Festival in October. They launched over 700 balloons. One year they did 1,000, but they found that it was too many, so they restricted the number of entries. I drove down there and met up with Elizabeth Temus and her brother Joe (who, by the way, is going on his mission to Russia soon). We had a blast! Elizabeth knew one of the balloon owners, Ohio (yes, that's his real name), so we got to be part of the chase crew. It was so much fun. Some day I will ride in a balloon, not just fill it up and send it off.
Somewhere around 5am, I think. We had to leave the house at 4am because we were part or the chase crew for one of the balloons - Dawn Song.
Filling up the balloon. It was pretty hot standing there near the flame.
Packing the balloon up after it landed.
