October 6-9, Albuquerque, NM
We all left Chama on Thursday morning and headed to Albuquerque for the Balloon Fiesta. We are dry camping together on the fiesta grounds. School buses pick us up right here in the RV park and take us to the front gate for every event. It is wonderful not to have to fight traffic to get to Fiesta Park. We attended the Thursday evening Special Shapes Glow and fireworks display. We got to see lots of different special shape balloons but the glow seemed to be a bit disorganized. The fireworks were great. We got up early Friday morning for the special shapes launch. We had a great time as we really love all the different balloon shapes. There are lots of new shapes – notice the fire hydrant at top right and the fire truck below. At the bottom left is part of the red fire chief’s hat. We wonder how some of these balloons fly. Nancy’s fa...