What a fantastic week! Mom got in in the late evening last Friday for her 8-day vacation in New Mexico. The visit was timed with the balloon fiesta; after seeing my pictures from last year, my mom decided immediately that she must make it here for that week, specifically.
Saturday morning we were up and on the road by 5:30am, which by Fiesta weekend standards is late. We were on our way to one of the mass ascensions, where they inflate a launch literally hundreds of hot air balloons.
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| Balloons being inflated before lift off. |
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| The Darth Vader balloon was back again this year from Belgium. |
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| Two new shape balloons: Spider Pig and a huge butterfly (it's left antenna was having a little trouble here). |
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| Took this one for my Mom's friend Al who, like this balloon, is from Jordan. |
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| "Stay inflated my friends" |
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| The Bees |
Just like last year, I took dozens more photos than will actually end up on this blog. I'll need to do something with them this time around, I certainly have enough for Fiesta themed photo presents for birthday's and holidays.
On Sunday we went to the Taos Wool Festival.
I always get an interesting reaction from people when I say I'm going to a wool festival. First of all, you get to see cute/funny animals. Secondly, the drive is beautiful. Third, there are lots of pretty things to look at and buy. So don't knock the wool festival until you've tried it.
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| An alpaca that is cute/silly. |
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| Disapproving Llama, disapproves of me taking its picture. |
I ended up buying some very nice yarn to make knitted gifts for Matt and my Mom. They picked the yarn, but the surprise will still be there when I finish the projects. I also left with a warm and fuzzy fleece headband and a drop spindle to make my own yarn. It isn't enough that I spend money and time on knitting and crocheting and materials, I now feel the need to make yarn too. Overachiever.
On the drive back from Taos, we stopped at the Rio Grande Gorge for a view over the bridge.
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| Rio Grande |
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| My Mom, with the wind in her hair. |
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| Taos Wool Festival Gang |
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| Me and Matteo |
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| Second tarantula I've seen in this area of NM. This guy was crawling around the ladies bathroom at the rest stop. |
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