Balloons!

The past few days has been the Balloons over Waikato festival - an excuse for a whole lot of hot air balloons to get together and fly each morning. Two years ago I took Ben and Joanna to one of the events, this time we all went. We got up slightly earlier than normal and took some breakfast with us, so that we were there in time for the "mass ascension" - the idea being that they all take off at around the same time.

The kids had lots of fun watching all sorts of balloons - they were just a little tired by that evening!

A full set of photos are at flickr