#16 Go to 5 festivals: Provo Balloon Festival at the Freedom Festival (3/5)

My goal was to go to 5 new festivals or at least parts of them that I'd never been to.  So even though I watched the Provo Freedom Festival parade, that doesn't count because I've done it before!  But I had never gone to the balloon launch!  Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me, but I did find some very representative photos online!

Aaron and I woke up super early to get there right at 6 am, and it was super cool.  All these balloons were laying out side ways.  Then they fill them up with cold air, and once they get to a certain point, the turn on these huge burners and put 6 foot flames into the balloons to heat 'em up!  We stood pretty close to one and it got toasty, just being on the ground beneath it.

filling up the balloon with cold air

firing it up!

Everyone clapped for the first balloon to actually get into the air.  It was quite an event.  Then once all the balloons had lifted, they played games where they had to get a bean bag as close to the target as possible.

Those are the balloons we saw!  The pig is for a bank...I thought that was cute.

Aaron even knew one of the balloonists, and it was super fun to talk to him.  I even found a picture of his balloon online!
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Greg's balloon!

Even though it was super early, it was definitely worth it!  What an experience!