Balloon Fiesta

Every year Albuquerque holds the international balloon fiesta. For those of you who don't speak spanish, balloon fiesta is spanish for, "balloon party."

We've been here for 4 years and have never attended. But I decided (mostly because we can't go to Disneyland) that we need to create happy family memories. So we got up at 5:30 am, spent 1 1/2 hours in traffic to drive 10 miles and made our way through thousands of people for this:

I took a picture of the lighthouse for my Grandpa - he was a sailor and loved the ocean.

Kendra's favorite.

"Wo - woo"

Darth Vador is not only the coolest balloon on the field, but they have storm troopers too!

So Cool.

Officers let Kendra pet their horses.