Showing posts with label Hot Air Ballooning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hot Air Ballooning. Show all posts

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Up, up and away....










Do you know what this is????? I thought it would make a fabulous wood basket ready for the cold winter nights!!





Or maybe this??????



I'm sure you'll know what this is!!!! Mr FH and I had a hot air balloon ride on Friday morning. It was just unreal! 
  

 


We had to meet the group at 3.45am!!  Yes, you heard me right.  We then boarded a bus which drove us out to a paddock on a farm and we prepared to launch the balloon.
It was quite dark and spooky when we were fiddling about taking the basket off the trailer and it took about 15 minutes to fill it with hot air. 




This is the big gas burner filling the balloon in the dark. 




I really didn't know anything about hot air ballooning before I went. This is the big gas flame that is turned up or down depending which way you need to go. No steering wheel here!!  Amazing really. 


























This photo looks a bit like it has been stuck on the scenery but it hasn't. The countryside is really dry at the moment and we could see for miles. See if you can guess which one is me!!!! 








Mr FH and I had a lovely night staying at this gorgeous B & B. It is a really old home which has four beautiful rooms built onto the back. I could move it's this house at the shake of a tail!!




























This is the gorgeous room we had. Each room is decorated differently. The other one we looked at was decorated in creams and whites - more my style but I liked this one as it was very striking. 

Our wonderful kids had given this to us as a Christmas present last year - how lucky are we??

Suzy