Plano Balloon Festival 2007

This is the first year I actually got to be there at the Plano Balloon Festival. The first time we went, I think we either missed the lift off time or parking was far. The second time we went, we parked somewhere around this empty lot in a neighborhood and saw the balloon go over us. We were not the only ones doing that, there were lots of other people doing the same thing. This year, we time it so we can see the parachutes and off course was late for that (though we still saw it from the parking lot) and we made it right on time and saw the balloons lift off from the field.

I must say, it’s so much better being there. You see the scale of the whole festival, of how many people there were. This was Friday, so I’m sure Saturday would have had more people. I didn’t think I was going to be that excited about balloons lifting off, but I guess when you have kids, you get excited with them!

Here are some pictures:

The above is  the view from the slope if you park at the Collin County College. It doesn’t look like there were a lot of people from this view, but there were people down at the field to the left all around and all along this slope.

Yeah, it’s funny how Hooter has to be everywhere. This was like a family/kids thing and Hooter was there. The funny thing was this boy probably 4-5 was next to us and said oh look at the orange balloon, it’s got eyes on it!

This was during the lift off on Friday night 6:30pm

This was down next to the field and there were a lot of vendors with food from Dickey BBQ to corn dogs. There was also a section that was very kids friendly with lots of kids thing to do.

This was the energizer bunny taking a nap face down before the night light up.

This was before the light up again and the energizer bunny is starting to wake up…slowly…very slowly.

Energizer bunny is up and will keep going and going and going…

Right before the 8pm light up, most of the balloons were up.

This was a little after 8pm when they have the light up. They count down and then all the balloon light up with their flame. If you blink too long, you will miss it. But don’t worry because they will do another count down…and another…and another. I don’t know how many they do because after the 3rd time, we had to leave since it was past the kids bedtime.

What’s a festival without Corn Dogs!!!??

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