Balloon Fiesta and Children's Museum

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is one of the highlights of our year and has become somewhat of a family tradition for us.  My parents started taking my brother, sister and I when we were young; eventually Sam was invited to come along; and now Sam and I love taking our boys!  It's an awesome experience to be able to see hundreds of huge hot air balloons just feet, and sometimes only inches away!  This year we got to see the balloon glow in the evening, and the launch bright and early in the morning!

 BALLOON GLOW!

The glow was such a beautiful sight to see, especially when they do the "all glow" and all of the balloons light up at the same time!

 

BALLOON LAUNCH! 

The morning of the launch, we got up bright and early (5am) to get out to the fields where the balloons lift off.  I am not much of a morning person, but it is well worth getting up early for!  There were so many special shapes to see, it was amazing!

  

  

One of our favorite balloons was this butterfly.  The boys said "It's baby Caleb's balloon!"

Our trip to Albuquerque was fast and furious, but we couldn't skip our favorite children's museum!

(the furniture they are sitting on in the picture below is on the elevator!)