Post by featherduster on Oct 14, 2011 8:35:26 GMT -5
My wife and I saw it all in one day on our trip to the 2011 Albuquerque NM 40th anniversary hot air balloon fiesta.
We stopped in Gunnison Colorado to pickup my sister in law and from there during the next 6 hours we drove through rain, with snow in the Monarch pass and a blinding dust storm that was blowing tumble weeds the size of Christmas trees across the roadway....but it was worth it.
The hot air balloon fiesta is the most photographed event in the world.
This year there were over 650 balloons in attendance and on the day we went there were over 100,000 people on the field.
The launch site is the size of 54 football fields with vendor row being about a mile long.
The event runs for 8 days and starts every morning about 2 hours before sunrise and continues until every balloon is launched which is about 10:00am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqSrMH55rvE
We stopped in Gunnison Colorado to pickup my sister in law and from there during the next 6 hours we drove through rain, with snow in the Monarch pass and a blinding dust storm that was blowing tumble weeds the size of Christmas trees across the roadway....but it was worth it.
The hot air balloon fiesta is the most photographed event in the world.
This year there were over 650 balloons in attendance and on the day we went there were over 100,000 people on the field.
The launch site is the size of 54 football fields with vendor row being about a mile long.
The event runs for 8 days and starts every morning about 2 hours before sunrise and continues until every balloon is launched which is about 10:00am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqSrMH55rvE
