Hot Air Balloons

 This past Saturday Mark and I woke up around 5am!  We wanted to take Lulu and Levi to see some hot air balloons and we needed to get there around sunrise for their launch.  I called and ordered some maple bars from our favorite bakery and we quickly swung in and picked those up, then headed out to Snohomish to Harvey Field.  Well, it was very foggy. So foggy they canceled the morning balloon flights.  We even waited in hopes the fog would clear and by 8:30am we headed home.   

 So, we decided to try again later that evening for the evening launch. This time we took sub sandwiches and had a picnic. The really great thing was that there was no fog!  Just wind. :( So the balloon launch was on hold.  So while we were waiting for the wind to die down we got to watch skydivers jump out of their planes and land in the same field we were having our picnic.  We also could see the planes take off and land too. 

 I don't know if you can see them but behind Levi's silly grin are some skydivers getting ready to land.

 Finally we saw the big balloon vans pull out onto the field and they quickly started setting up and filling the balloons.  We walked/ran out there a good half mile so we could get a closer look.   

 We headed back to the van after the balloons were launched and heading off.  We decided it would be fun to chase them and see if we could see them land.  We did find them and were about no lie 2 min too late to see them actually land.  It was really neat to see the entire process.