Its a bird! Its a plane! Its a hot air balloon!

The blogger once again isn't allowing me to cut and paste the pictures so this post is completely backwards and out of order...

The balloons!

More balloons!

Had to get a close-up of my two eaters (Whitney and Tyler) chowing down on a hotdog!

Enjoying dinner! Craig enjoying his second dinner! And watching the balloons blow up.

Me and the kiddies!

A family shot.

I know, cheesy title, right? So, if you live in this area, you have already figured out what we did last night. Plano had their annual balloon festival and we made a short trip of it. Craig's work issued a service emergency (which means 7 day work weeks until further notice) due to all the rain we've been getting. But since we had a few appointments yesterday afternoon, Craig scheduled a half day of vacation yesterday prior to the S.E., which enabled us to be able to go do something fun for the weekend after we finished up with our appointments.

It was a little muddy in route from the car to the festival but once we got there, it wasn't bad, the roads were just a little wet. We had a great time walking around listening to the music, looking at the different vendor's booths and more importantly, the FOOD! We enjoyed lots of yummy foods that are SO bad for you - it was great! Nachos, BBQ sandwiches, hot dogs, potato swirly fries and even cupcakes. We won't be going to the Texas State Fair this year so this is a smaller version of that.

I met another triplet mom whose trio is 7 years old. We chatted for a few minutes sharing similar stories. Then, we were off to watch the balloons air up...

They didn't launch them off due to the weather but it was still fun to watch them air up for the "balloon glow". They aired up about 12 or 13 balloons I believe and I think the kiddos were very interested in what that big thing in the sky was.

They are scheduled to launch them off twice a day - at 7a.m. and 6p.m. but from what I saw on the news this morning, they didn't go up again because of the direction of the wind. Apparently with the wind blowing south, there is no where for them to land in Dallas so they don't go up.