Balloon Festival

We went to a balloon festival in Readington NJ this last Saturday.  We had to get up at 4 am because the balloons took off at 6:30 am and it was about an hour away.  The kids slept the whole way which is always nice.  It was a very hot humid day...even at 6:30 in the morning.  I don't think the kids really knew what to expect until the balloons started rising from the ground.  It was an amazing site to see so many of them.  They also had some sky divers which was cool to see.  I think our favorite balloon was the barn one and Annie's favorite was the pink one....if there is anything pink it's always her favorite.  Unfortunately, not long after they started going off the wind picked up a little bit and they said that if the wind is even 10 mph then the balloons can't take off.  So a lot of the large special shaped balloons didn't make it up.  We kept rooting for the flag balloon which was almost all the way done when the wind kind of blew it around and it had to go down.  It was kind of sad.  I'm sure it's a lot of work for them to put those balloons up and then not be able to take off would be difficult.  But we had a great time and when we got home we all took a nice long nap since we had woken up so early.  It was a fun morning.