War Memorial Hot Air Balloon Show

Last week, when I was leaving class, I saw the Goodyear blimp.  I called Sahara and told her to go outside and look towards the college to see if she could see it.  They could and thought it was pretty cool.  The next day it was in the paper that the Goodyear blimp had made a rare appearance over Arkansas.  I realized, this was probably the first time they had ever seen it.

Saturday morning I was up before the kids and saw on facebook that there was a hot air balloon show in Little Rock that day.  Since we didn't have plans, later that day we headed to Little Rock.

The first thing Canyon spied was a fire truck...and if that's all we came to see, he would have been happy.

It was super hot and food was outrageously priced.  Plus you have to wait in one line to buy food tickets, then get in another line for the food.  Next year, if we go, we are bringing our own food and drinks.  Many people did, but we didn't know the rules.  $30 for 4 corn dogs and 4 lemonades and 2 icees to share was crazy.

 

After the icees we were cooled down and the balloons started going up.

 

 

The pilot of the monkey balloon was dressed as a banana and all the pilots gave out trading cards.  

Canyon's first card was a monkey card!

 

 

The pilot of the balloon in the middle with the diagonal pattern (below), let Canyon get in the basket and turn on the fire.  He really liked that! Jared took a picture on his phone but I don't have it to post here.  I had to stay back and guard the chairs while they collected cards.

 

I was disappointed that there was only 10 balloons when the news said 20-25.  But there was a breeze and the 'ride' balloons (for $200) were cancelled.  Without the breeze we would have had heat-strokes though.
We will probably go back if we aren't doing something else, but next time we will bring our own eats and drinks!