Balloon Fest - Hannah's Eyes

It's amazing how different things look from the perspective of a 5 year old. On the first night we attended the actual Balloon Fiesta, it was so windy that they cancelled the festivities. Not knowing what to expect, we had arrived SUPER EARLY! Our first clue that it was too windy was that we saw kites flying everywhere on the field!

The girls didn't seem phased at all. They had a blast playing in the field. Hannah thinks she knows how to do cartwheels and was teaching the girls everything she knows. Check out this site for those pics!

The next morning was super early. As in, wake up at 3:30 and get ready, put the girls in the van (we had let them sleep in their clothes) and head out to the field. That morning was still windy but the balloons were able to inflate. This was awesome because it was the "special shapes rodeo" so there were lots of balloons of all different shapes - even some well known characters. Even though it was too windy for them to lift off, the girls had a blast seeing all the balloons.

Hannah got a great camera for her birthday and she used it for a lot of the trip but on this particular night, the batteries were dead. And then the next morning was SUPER early and her mommy (I guess that would be me) forgot to pick it up from where she had so carefully set it out so she would have it. When she asked to use my camera, I thought to myself "sure, why not?" I mean, Superman had HIS camera and I knew he would get the good pics so what would it hurt?

Here's what she saw . . .

Ronnie & Avery

Daddy & Chloe

Mommy & Chloe

Jen checking out the settings on her camera

Daddy being his goofy self

Self Portrait

All of the streets in the field had pretty cool names but this is the one we sat by :-)

Here goes the first balloon!

This cow was HUGE!!!

Next time, we'll see what I was able to catch!