The Glow

I am not sure how many balloons there were. After they are all up, a horn sounds about every five minutes and they all blow their fire into the balloons. (I know, "blow their fire" is probably not what they call it - but I already gave you the tutorial, you can't expect me to know everything about all of it.) It is really a beautiful sight. That multi-color in the front right was probably my favorite.


























































The glow was last night. Sometime today they launched all the balloons, but we had other plans (see subsequent posts). Apparently their is a contest to follow the big Energizer Bunny balloon and the first balloon to drop an object where the bunny lands wins a prize. Or, you are just thankful that you don't get wrapped up in some phone lines or run out of hot air over Lake St. Louis and forget about the prize. It is great to see them floating across the city - we saw some of that last year.