Blatant advertising.
Some Assembly required.
More, careful assembly required.
the cannon that fired hot air/gas into the balloon. Vital.
This is one very big balloon.
The church where we took off.
The trees the balloonist used as a wind judgement.
This was surprisingly clear considering how bad my hands were shaking.
A view of the inside of the balloon. Alas, I couldn't get one of the outside!
We could hear lots of dogs barking at us.
And over there are some mountains . . .
I suppose you could call this the control panel.
Smile! There's only SO much room - couldn't zoom out any further!
The "good lord I can't believe I'm standing in a tiny basket so far off the ground" smile.
No, those are NOT horns. *marks for photoshopping*
Cows! We could actually hear them mooing from way up there.
The chase vehicle.
Sheep. We were fairly certain.
I think we decided that these were goats. They're possibly ducks.
Sunsets! I think we accomplished a sunset more than once by going higher . . .
Note to self . . . land well before nightfall.
Limestone? cave?
Possibly the last time we saw the chase vehicle for several hours . . .