Labor Day Weekend

Just thought I would share some of our adventures from Labor Day weekend.  Brandon ran in the Dirty dash with some coworkers.  It was supposed to be in August but then the race had so many people sign up they had to move to a bigger venue and the race was moved to Labor Day weekend.  So we had to get the kids up early, which they don't really like, but they really enjoyed the ride because of what we saw out the windows.

 Hot air balloons.  Brandon thought this picture was funny, but since we were driving it was purely accidental.

 Every Labor Day weekend the city hosts the Balloon Classic. 

Three days worth of hot air balloons.  Two nights they have a Glow, the balloons stay on the ground lit up by their burners.  We didn't take the kids to either one of those.  The balloons didn't launch Sunday morning, I think because of weather, but they did go up Saturday and Monday.

 Brandon and his coworkers all clean before the race.  And looking so happy.

Just waiting to start.

 The kids were not happy about all the waiting but we finally saw them.

 At the finish line.  Which was more water than mud.

Dirty at the end but still looking pretty happy.

Monday we decided  to try and see the balloons take off.  I only agreed because the balloons take off here in town.  My mom was always threatening to take us to the balloon festival in Driggs, I say threatening because she told us we would be getting up around three in the morning.  Because there was a weather delay we did manage to get to the park before all the balloons had taken off.  Unfortunately there was no where close to park so Brandon dropped us off at the corner and we watched and waited for him to find us.

Even from the edge of the park we were able to hear the burners and watch the balloons take off.

 The Wyoming balloon.

 This was Caitlyn's favorite balloon because it had a unicorn.

 All the balloons were in a field in the middle of the park and they were all inflating at the same time.

 Brandon found us and we moved closer after eating donuts.

 The kids liked the Smokey Bear balloon.  It was the only shape balloon, but all the balloons were gorgeous.

There was so much to look at it was hard to get the kids' attention.  Bradley was in seventh heaven, he kept yelling "hot balloon" and he still wonders where they went.  It was fun to see them floating around that weekend.