Balloon

Decided to take yellow balloons this time. Skip the shut down of all the Potomac bridges. See what there is.

... palpable as people rush around, making sure their balloon is going to take off at the right moment. A partially inflated balloon suggests the majestic appearance to come, while a balloon during pre-dawn with the afterburner glowing creates a truly ...

... rain and high winds.  Because of this a few of the planned events - both rally related events & Balloon Fiesta events -  were cancelled.  People were starting to get a bit discouraged but all would become right again when the ...

... the maker and district of the balloons in Myanmar language. That was just the first one! Straight after we noticed another balloon nearing completion and raced over to see the action unfold. Unfortunately it had come across trouble towards the end and ...

... quickly collapse.  After the balloon was down we got out of the basket.  While the chase crew folded up the balloon and loaded everything onto a trailer the pilot opened a bottle of champagne for the traditional toast.  We then were driven ...

... few men magically emerged from the nearby sugar cane fields. I thought these happy souls were just thrilled to see the massive balloon near their village, until I realized that this was our chosen landing spot. The pilot yelled his command for us to ...

The first passengers in a hot air balloon flight were a sheep, a duck and a rooster, launched by the brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier in 1783. The last passenger was our monkey, Mono Loco. Today we took our first ever hot air balloon flight ...

... almost crash landing after a balloon flight; the basket dragged on its side for it seemed ages. So I was pleasantly surprised when our balloon touched down lightly only dragging for a bit and most of all not tipping over. Mr Dundee asked for a tall man ...

... the UK and Holland as well :-) ... 06:05 is the time that the balloons are allowed to take of and a few moments later our balloon went off without us because we were on the second flight... Taking place into a bus we started our balloon chase and with our ...

... why. We rose up a bit again before coming down in a field a few minutes from the bad touchdown location. Hasan navigated our balloon right onto the flat bed truck that carried it! The entire basket full of people applauded him and cheered. He gave us all ...