Lake Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair

When we visited Lake Havasu back in the Fall, the shops were handing out these bookmarkers.  We thought how cool it would be to go, but our contract back then ended in December.  Now it had been extended through January so, whopee!, we got to go!

I have now spent three days sorting through the almost 500 photos we took, (Did ya' miss me?) and will now to immortalize a few on the blog.  

Granpa wanted to be there early enough to experience the "Glittering Dawn" display of fantastic Shaped Balloons, so we were up before dawn.  Well, let me say that he was up before dawn.  I fell back to sleep!  (Totally not like me.)  But he woke me with a kiss and a cup of hot tea, so I'd have to say it was the perfect start to an absolutely perfect day!

The drive from Kingman to Lake Havasu is just over an hour and our timing seemed perfect.  As we stepped out of the van we saw three bi-planes coming out of the sunrise headed for the island.  Granpa barely had time to get his camera out! 

They continued to zoom and  swoop over the island until the sky was so filled with balloons that safety sent them home.

Later on there was skydiving with precise landings on the field right beside the Shaped Balloons.  There were over seventy-five balloons scheduled to fly today - and almost twenty of those were Shaped.  

There was a carnival with a Ferris Wheel and Merry-Go-Round and children's roller coaster which was so cool I was wishin' I was a kid again!

 

See the two balloons to the right and left of the Ferris Wheel?  The best is yet to come!

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