For whatever reason I decided to go to the annual "International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta" in Albuquerque, New Mexico in order to see hundreds and hundreds of balloons. I'm not sure what the official tally was, but they average 700+ hot air balloons each year which is about 698 more balloons than I have ever seen before in my life. The actual execution didn't go off terribly well due to poor planning on my part and dilly dallying on my brother and his fiance's part so we missed the morning session. Thankfully, however, we were still able to see the "balloon glow" which took place that night where all the balloons remained tethered to the ground and blasted their burners to light up the night. High winds killed that early too, but it lasted long enough for a frantic scurrying about trying to see all the hundreds of balloons inflating on the massive launch area. Essentially all an eight hour wait followed by thirty minutes of sensory overload.
So I still don't really know why I went; I guess I just really wanted to see a bunch of balloons, but for similarly unknown reasons I want to go back. We missed a lot and the little we did experience passed a bit too quickly. The photos also weren't too fantastic as the upper 40 degree temperatures that evening gave me the shivers making use of my camera's night scene setting even more disorienting, but here they are:
Balloons!
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