About 7:30 tonight this is what floated through our neighborhood. It was the highlight of the evening for all the kids. I'm not sure if they meant to land in our subdivision or not but they did and it was pretty amazing how quickly and easily they did it!! They brought the balloon really low to the ground and threw out a rope to some people that were following it in a support vehicle. They pulled the balloon down to the ground and squeezed it right in between 2 houses (in the picture below you can see that our houses are fairly close together and they just went right in between without touching anything!)
The people got out of the basket and then they let the air out.
From the time the balloon landed until they had it all loaded up was only about 15 minutes!! The people even handed out stickers for the kids and let us look in the basket and the kids could touch the balloon!! Not an everyday sight to have a hot air balloon in your front yard and you don't realize how big they are until you see one up close!
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About 6 years back, a hot air ballon landed in mine & Charlie's backyard...turns out it was his Grandpa and 2 of his Aunts! We didn't know they were on a hot air ballon and they didn't mean to land in our backyard. They didn't even know where we lived!
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