The Balloon Festival

Tonight I went to the balloon festival with my sister and her four kids and our cousin Sue. We ate at McDonald's for supper and then went to where they would launch the balloons. They were supposed to launch them at 6:00 pm. Well, 6:00 came and went. They then made a announcement that it was too windy to launch them. I wasn't too surprised because it was a very windy COLD day! They said at 8:00 they would do a fire launch or something like that. We thought they would let the balloons go up a little but not launch. We decided to wait. The kids played at a park nearby. We then went to Grammy Keene's house which was around the corner. We stayed there for a little bit and went back so we could see the balloons. We went back about 7:30. We got fried dough and we waited for the balloons to go up. I and the kids were really excited about seeing the beagle balloon. I have a beagle named Copper and the kids have a beagle named Gaby. Well, they had all the basket thing set up in a big circle. At 8:00, all the people started lighting it so it would make fire and competing against each other. Then someone over a microphone started counting them off the baskets and when he said that number, that basket would light their fire. It was a very, cold depressing night. We never even saw one balloon at the balloon festival. Maybe someone should tell them to do it earlier in the summer so they could actually launch their balloons and people could actually enjoy them! :)



Below are some pictures from today. Some are from Gray Animal Farm and some are from the park that we played in.

Kaylee on a tree stump! Kelsey playing in the grass! Latoya jumps to another log!

Jordan on "HIS" tree stump! Toya & Jordan on a tree stump. Latoya and the girls!


Toya and Jordan petting Kadie! Jordan's crazy hair!!! Toya goes down on her coat!


Tired Kelsey and Silly Kaylee!