Landing Zone

Thursday night, someone must have painted a big ol' target on our school to turn it into a landing zone, and it created thrills for hours!.  Friday morning began the Balloonar Landing Festival, and instead of landing at NASA, over a dozen of the hot air balloons decided (or, more likely, were blown) to our campus.  Don't get me wrong-this was amazing!  The kids were just beginning to arrive at school as the first balloons began making their descent into our fields.  So many of our kids have never seen anything like this, and to be just feet away from a balloon was so exciting.  We could feel the heat from the propane as the balloons made their final preparations to land.  The vibrant colors in the balloons decorated our fields like Christmas ornaments.  It was so fun to watch the pilots and their crews pack up the balloons before we headed in for our day of classes.  We then ended the day with a visit by life flight.  Everyone is fine-just a broken arm-and I think the kids were most excited because they knew a helicopter was in our field.  Gotta love middle schoolers!

 

Isaac, Jason, and Jacob were crewing one of the balloons, and my friend Amy and I went out for the glow last night.  I'm glad we went then; the weather cancelled the rest of the festival beginning this morning.  The balloons look like Christmas lights on steroids.  They are beautiful when they all glow together. 

The balloon the guys crewed.