HELLO 2:30 AM!!! Have any of you got up at 2:30 in the morning to see something, well this is the most beautiful site and is well worth the early morning, tons of coffee, and the drive to Reno. For the past three years Rob and I have taken the kids to the hot air balloon races in Reno, Nevada. The show starts before the sun even comes up. See why we have to get up so early. We left our house at 3:00am headed to Reno and set up sleeping bags, tons of blankets, and a thermos of coffee(hot chocolate for the kids) and watch the balloons light up the dark morning sky. There are usually only about seven balloons that take off when it is still dark outside, it is called the glow show.
Slowing the sun comes up and while still lying on the ground there are several balloons blowing up and getting ready to take off into the sky. It is truly a beautiful sight, because you are so close to them and when they take off you are able to look up right inside the balloon.
Many different balloons. There was a soccer ball
Darth Vader's helmet, stagecoach, strawberry,
Pepsi can, and many different colored ones.
Tucker's of course was Darth Vader. I couldn't
get a good picture of it but it is the black one right
behind this strawberry.
Mom and Sammi taking a picture opp in
front of the Pepsi can, my favorite.
This balloon with the face on it was Kemper's
favorite. He kept calling it the man balloon.
Dad and Sammi enjoying the warm sun coming up.
Rob and his brother-in-law Rob and his nephew
Mitchell, only 3 weeks old.
Tucker loved all the balloons.
This is an amazing site to be seen. Every year at the wee hours of the morning we always ask ourselves why we get up this early just to see balloons, but then we get there and are reminded that it was well worth it.
