Plano Balloon Festival

The family decided to go experience the Plano Balloon Festival Friday night.  Every year we say we'll go and  never do.  So this year, we actually did.  Mike is running in the 5K race on Sunday which gave us some free tickets/parking, so it was the perfect year to go.  We met up with Mikaela's pal, Antonio and his family to watch them inflate the balloons and light up against the dark night sky.  Mike enjoyed taking 200+ pictures of the evening so here are just a few highlights.

We missed the actual launching of balloons, but saw a few in flight walking from the parking lot to the festival.

Playing a xylophone at the Plano Symphony Chorus booth

Picking a duck for a prize

Balloons getting inflated

best buds watching them inflate

Dance Party

the "all-glo"

Mikaela's Announcement

Outtakes:

Gig 'Em Aggies

Countdown

8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-cereal.