Balloon Fiesta

This post was started last October but is just now getting posted. Sorry about that! 😁 

We've been looking forward to the big event here in Albuquerque, the Balloon Fiesta. It ended today so we spent a couple of afternoon and evenings at the park. We have had beautiful weather in Albuquerque all up until this last week. It was cloudy and stormy every day except the first day last Saturday, so many days the big balloon events were canceled. It was disappointing. But we did manage to experience some of the events. We watched the first day from a parking lot not far from out apartment. We went Thursday afternoon and saw the chain saw carving but the "Special Shapes Glowdeo" was canceled because of wind. It even started to rain and many people left. We stuck it out and were rewarded with being able to watch an amazing "Aerial Light Show" - hundreds maybe thousands of drones  creating shapes of all colors. It was beautiful. That was followed by fireworks. Because the Glowdeo was canceled, our ticket was honored for another session. We decided to give it another try on Friday afternoon/evening. The weather was great for the first 3 hours. The Special Shapes Glowdeo got going for a few minutes. Then out of no where a down pour began, the balloons deflated and people started running for cover. It was a mass exit of thousands of people. There was even some lightning which initiated an emergency evacuation. You can imagine what the traffic was like when everyone tried to leave at exactly the same moment. We were soaked when we made it back to our car. But we are glad we went in spite of the rain.