Our house is at the end of a huge cul-d-sac. Beyond the cul-de-sac (so to the left of our house if you are facing the front door) is basically a big desert lot that is zoned for commercial use. Nobody knows what is going to go there so for now it is just piles of dirt. Our house backs up to a road called Westwing Pkwy and across that street is just desert. In fact, I've been spending all my nights out on the back patio painting the kids new bunk beds and I have heard coyotes literally right across the street. Anyway, this afternoon Rand was out putting together garage shelves and came running inside to grab the camera and me to check out what was happening outside. Right across the street AND in the desert lot at the end of the cul-de-sac (how do you spell "cul-de-sac" anyway??) were hot air balloons getting ready to launch. We watched them one by one fill with air, take off with a basket full of people, go straight up into the sky and then dip behind the mountain. I always wondered how the hot air balloons managed to land in the same place they take off. As it turns out....they don't. They disappeared and we didn't see them again. But we sure had fun watching them blow up and take off right in our back yard! (Be sure to click on the pictures to see them a little bit bigger....the pictures hardly do it justice. It really was cool!)
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That is sooo sweet. I love hot air balloons.
And you are spelling cul-de-sac correctly, I looked it up. Here's the definition : A cul-de-sac is a dead-end street with only one inlet/outlet. Cul-de-sac literally means "bottom of a bag" in French and Catalan. So, there you go. You live at the bottom of a bag. :)
Silly, of course they don't land in the same place. What kind of fun would that be? When I went for a hot air balloon ride in Seattle, they first filled a small balloon, let it go, and then watched it to see how fast and what direction is was going in. That way they could try and "estimate" where we would be heading. Once up in the air, we had chasers down below in cars trying to track us. Seems my people weren't very good at guessing where we were going, because we missed our scheduled landing area by a long shot and landed in someone's backyard. They thought it was pretty cool. Who wouldn't want a random hotair balloon landing in their yard?
Can you fish from a hot air balloon? Can it get me to a great place to fish? Those are the defining questions as to whether a hot air balloon is worth the trouble.
Can you work out any hot air balloon deals for those that do visit you?
I want to go up in a balloon!
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