Today, Labor Day, we attended the local Hot Air Balloon festival. It was great! Earlier this summer we had tried to attend a festival in Steamboat Springs, but that festival was cancelled on account of fire danger. This festival had about 100 balloons and Stephen loved it! We were able to walk in and around the balloons as they were going up. For the first 45 minutes Stephen would hide behind our legs whenever the fire was lit to fill a balloon. Towards the end, he was much braver. The last balloon we saw go up was Smokey the Bear.
Stephen hiding
Happy filming!
Smokey the Bear going up
'Smookie' the Bear
For the rest of the day, Stephen kept talking about 'Smookie' the Bear and building miniture ones out of his legos.
As my cousin recently said, the typical and normal days are probably my favorite. But this event was a lovely labor day adventure.
