Today is Monday, the day after my long awaited passion of viewing the hot air balloons at the HOF festival events. I am walking around with my lower lip dragging on the floor from disappointment. This entire last month we had zero rain. Long hot dry days where we were watering our plants to keep them alive every other night and watching the spider webs being built on the lawn mowers. With all this dryness it NEVER occurred to me there would be a problem with lift offs this year. Well....Mother Nature had other ideas.
The balloons were scheduled to lift off Friday night.......X that, it rained. They were scheduled to lift off early Saturday morning for the balloon race.....X that, it rained. Saturday evening lift off??? Nope, tornado warnings ruined that plan. Sunday morning, another chance of lift off for the races......X that. Yes it stayed dry but from all the previous rain the fog was thick as the proverbial pea soup.
The Glow on Saturday night happened but the only one I saw glowing was this one from the newspaper.
On Saturday and Sunday morning they have speciality balloons on the Stark Campus grounds blowing up to the delighted spectators. These are scheduled to start at 6:30 AM and it keeps the fans occupied waiting for the words, It's a go! By 8:00 AM we are walking back to the car discussing where we will have breakfast while the balloons deflate behind us. Pout, pout.....there is always next year. 365 days away. Pout, Pout!
The ribs burn off is this coming weekend...along with the parade. The weather girls says dry and hot all week but rain is expected for the weekend. My plans are to start reading Harry Potter and forget about getting up early. :)
4 comments:
Bummer! Didn't something happen that you didn't get to see them last year too??
What a stinker...
At least you can still go to your wine tasting thing or did that get rained out as well?
Tammi, one of the mornings last year was a go, but the fog and the local airport shut down the Saturday lift off.
Rob, the wine tasting is this weekend, Friday and Saturday. We were not able to go to that last year or this year cause Gerry could not get this week off for vacation. I do enjoy the wine tasting fest but we have not finished the bottles we got two years ago. :)
don't buy... just sample :)
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