Hot Air Balloon Festival - Part 4

On the last day of the Hot Air Balloon Festival, we had some major storms roll through the area. We weren't sure they would even hold the evenings festivities. We headed up anyway just in case. We walked around the Bavarian Inn complex enjoying a nice evening stroll.

We then headed over to the main lawn to enjoy the "twinkle" event since it was too wet and a bit windy for them to inflate the balloons. We also walked around collecting more signatures. We obtained signatures for 27 of the 36 balloons featured.

I even caught Trisha in the act of capturing images on her new camera, which is my old camera. She earned it as her payment for her willingness to help me out when needed.

A short time later, we headed back to the car to enjoy the fireworks display.

Watching the fireworks over the Zehnder's Bridge was an awesome sight.

Hot Air Balloon Festival - Part 3

Saturday evening we headed back up to Frankenmuth for the balloon glow and twinkle.

Because of the weather they only inflated two of the envelopes. We walked around and collected all of the signatures from the pilots who had their baskets out.

Asa and Eli loved the balloons but were not thrilled when the flames were ignited.

It was so much fun again and I loved practicing my handheld night shots.

Hot Air Balloon Festival - Part 1

Memorial Weekend, we headed up to Frankenmuth for the Hot Air Balloon Festival.

We walked around the shops for a bit waiting for the balloons.

We made our first visit to the Popcorn Wagon. Eli picked out blue raspberry popcorn and Asa got grape popcorn. Chris and I enjoyed Parmesan garlic popcorn, YUM! We also spotted our first balloon. YAY!!!

We headed over to watch the balloons launch. The boys loved it, of course.

After watching the fiesta flyers taking off we noticed the race balloons coming in so we headed over to watch the competition. These flyers were attempting to hit a target.

I was in awe of how low this guy got. The fact that I captured an image of it even if it is slightly out of focus makes me even happier.

So much fun to watch. Next post will be the Balloon Glow from Friday night.