Hot Air Balloon Festival

On Saturday, our energizer bunny leader, Eric (yes those are energizer bunny ears he is wearing) drove us to South Denver at 5:15 am to see the balloons take off at the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival. Just as the sun was coming up, the first balloon (the sponsor RE/MAX balloon) took off with the American Flag. We got up close to the balloons as they were filling up with air, which scared Alexis (the noise of the hot air flame). So we started to walk further away as some of the balloons took off, which Faith liked so she could play with her fancy camera more and get some better pictures of the balloons against the Rockies. Once we got further away, Alexis liked the balloons. She waved at them when they took off - her favorite were the red, white and blue ones. The Energizer Bunny was one of the last balloons to take off - this was one of the most odd shaped balloons there besides Tony the Tiger, which you can see in the 16th picture down along side one of the red, white and blue balloons. After all of the balloons took off, Alexis got to go on one of the moonwalk jumpers. Then she got a balloon of her own - she said "it has a lot of hot air" and "it can go real high."