Hot Air Balloon ride

Well it took 2 days to get to Arizona!  Our first flight was so delayed on Tuesday that we would have missed our connection so we all went back home and tried again Wednesday and we made it.  Then got up at 3:30 this morning to get to the meeting place for the balloon ride.  We then took a bus to the launch site and watched them set up the balloon.  Here are some photos from the trip.  My favorite part was seeing a coyote chase after a jack rabbit when we got pretty close to the ground.  The highest we were was 2,500 feet up and the fastest we went was 20 mph.  Very awesome experience and so glad I was able to share it with my hubby and some random stranger who was also on the flight :)

 blowing up balloons

I was a little shocked to hear, after our great landing, which wasn't as bumpy as the pilot had alluded to, that this was his first upright landing in about 4 days!  Usually the basket tips on it's side and everyone is holding on not to get dumped out!!  So glad that wasn't our experience!

 The balloon after we landed in a farm field

 View of mountains from the balloon, and the moon

 other balloon we were following the whole trip, not as pretty as ours huh?

Just thought this was cool to see our shadow on the farm fields before we landed