October 8, 2016
Balloon Fiesta
The year we finally had some friends come out for Balloon Fiesta! We've kept in touch with the Coons family, who we knew back in our BYU student ward when we both only had one child! Now we both have seven children and this is the first time we've gotten together since our BYU days! It was so much fun to catch up and get reacquainted with them.
Sadly, the mass ascension that we went to was a little underwhelming. We'd gotten up at 5 AM and each of us loaded up our seven children and our breakfast burritos to get there in time. There was a little bit of wind, but nothing that should have been a deal breaker. But when we got to Balloon Fiesta Park, we ended up hanging out there for about an hour waiting for the green light. After awhile, a lot of the balloonists decided to pack up and leave. One Texas pilot we spoke with said, "It's much better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground!" I guess that's true, but when you have friends from Arizona who came out to see the balloons, you sure wish they would go up!!
So we waited, and everybody ate their breakfast burritos and played catch with the rolled up balls of foil, and eventually a lot of the balloons did inflate and enough took off that it felt like a fiesta. Thank goodness!!
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