On to the balloon fiesta!

The next morning, Thursday, we were all waiting around for Larry to show up, since he was leading us all, as a group, to the RV park. We thought we had to wait until the afternoon to go in, but, he had told us the previous evening that we were going in the morning. He finally got there around 9, so Ron started the engine and it fired up, just as if nothing had ever happened. We all paraded out of the parking lot and over to the lot which was only about maybe 5 miles or so, not very far at all. Fortunately, there wasn't that much traffic going into the lot, so we didn't have to wait very long to get parked. We are located about 5 rows from the main street, which is handy for us. The balloon museum is just across that main road and the balloon field is just beyond that. I think we lucked out on our spot.

I took pictures of our spot, but, it's on the other camera, so when I get them off, I'll post them. We didn't do much of anything on Thursday, except set up the rig. We decided not to set up the satellite, since we figured we'd be too busy. We did see some Boomers walking past the rig and it turned out to be Kaz & Jackie, and Ron followed them over to where the Boomers were parked so we'd know. I know I was doing something else, but, can't remember right now what it was or I would have gone, too. Ron met some of the other Boomers who were around, including Chuck & Jan and they told him we could still sign up to be on the chase crews.

So, on Friday morning, we went over to the balloon field to check everything out. We watched a video on what was expected of us and then went to the tent to sign up. We had decided that since this was our first visit, we just wanted to sign up for one night and one morning. We got assigned to a balloon called Cardiac Air Rest, piloted by a Colin Grahm. We walked over to the field just on the off chance that he might be there, so we could meet him, but, he wasn't there. So, we just walked around among the different vendors to see what they were selling.