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Still Sunday morning, 10/13/24. Watching some inflation.

Still Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More Liftoff.... There are probably around 200 balloons in the air now. Much like photographing the Grand Canyon, it is impossible to capture the breath and excitement of this grandeur. It is probably around 8:00 in the morning now, and balloons are taking off about one every minute or two. They have to be spread out in time and space for safety of all. They spre...

Still Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More Liftoff....

Still Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More Liftoff!

Still Sunday morning, 10/13/24. Now with daylight, let the lift-offs begin to the National Anthem. This radio station is a major sponsor of the event, and their employees are the announcers from a large platform at the edge of the HUGE crowd. I don't know how to estimate people in a group like this, but the field is huge probably 20 - 30 football fields. Must be several-10,000 folks gathered.

Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More of the drone show. This is called an "International Balloon Festival", so these drone-light patterns change to display various famous areas of the globe.

Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More of the drone show. It's still about 5:30 in the morning.

Sunday morning, 10/13/24. More of the drone show. It's still about 5:30 in the morning, and each dot in the sky is a separate drone creating these patterns.

Sunday morning, 10/13/24. The morning show is the real show! It starts about 5:30 in the morning, so I've been up since about 2:30 to take the Park-and-Ride bus down to the balloon field First up is the drone show Phenomenal!

Saturday, 10/12/24 is winding down now. This is the ride back down, from inside the tram. It's probably about 9:00 in the evening.

Saturday, 10/12/24: More sunset views from Ten3 Restaurant. For the record, the dinner was PHENOMENAL. And pretty pricey! We would both say that it might be the finest restaurant meal we had ever enjoyed.

Saturday, 10/12/24: From Ten3 Restaurant, the sunsets are phenomenal.

IMG 1998: Saturday evening, 10/12/24. More on the tram ride up to Ten3 Restaurant.

IMG 1994:Saturday evening, 10/12/24. More on the tram ride up to Ten3 Restaurant.

IMG 1991: Saturday evening, 10/12/24. More on the tram ride up to Ten3 Restaurant.

IMG 1983: Saturday, 10/12/24. More on the tram ride up to Ten3 Restaurant.

IMG 1977: Saturday evening, 10/12/24. Let the tram ride begin!

IMG 1963: Saturday morning, 10/12/24. Test ride out to our dinner place for tonight.

IMG 1955: Still Friday, 10/11/24. More of the evening balloon show.

IMG 1953:Still Friday, 10/11/24. More of the evening balloon show.

IMG 1949: Still Friday, 10/11/24. More of the evening balloon show.

IMG 1947: Still Friday, 10/11/24. More of the evening balloon show.

IMG 1945: Friday evening show continues, 10/11/24. Listen to the announcer's encouragements.

IMG 1944: Friday evening show, begins, 10/11/24.

IMG 1937: Friday, 10/11/24. Let the evening show begin!

IMG 1926: Still Friday evening 10/11/24. Opening Ceremonies for the evening show.

IMG 1925: Still Friday 10/11/24 at/before the evening show.

IMG 1922: Friday, 10/11/24. We're down at the Albuquerque Fiesta Park for the evening Balloon Show.

IMG 1889: Wednesday, 10/9/24 - en Route to Albuquerque, NM