Hot Air Balloons or Bust

Thursday I took Liza and Erin to the Battle Creek hot air balloon festival so they could have their first experience with the balloons. The weather was super windy that night, so we knew going into it that they were not launching the balloons, but we decided to go anyways to see them light the balloons up at night.

We made our rounds at the festival while we were waiting for the sun to go down. Liza and I decided to ride the pirate ship ride (that was the scariest ride we could handle). The carnie running the ride thought we were cute so he didn't make us use our tickets as an excuse to flirt with us and the little girls in the row in front of us were making fun of us the entire time because we were scared and they weren't... does that mean we are getting old?

After the ride, we had to determine which fair food was better, a funnel cake or an elephant ear. So we got one of each and took our seats to await the balloon show. After determining that the funnel cake was far better, listening to a local band and counting the mullets, the announcer let us all know that it was too windy to even light the balloons up. Something about lighting things on fire...whatever!!! Anyways after all that, we didn't even get to see the balloons. Sorry guys, guess we'll have to try again next year.

Liza and I waiting for the pirate ride

Erin holding our things

Here we are on the ride.