Balloons over Bend '08

Balloons Over Bend

One of our favorite things about living in Bend is there is always some kind of festival or market going on. Every weekend in the summer there is a Sat market and every Wed and Friday there is a farmers market. In addition, there is always something going on at the old mill or downtown. This was the weekend before my parents came out and it was really cool to watch. At 7am all of the balloons were blown up on the feild of the elementary school that I work at and we can now walk to. We were able as you can see to get really close to all of the balloons. There were about 15-18 balloons that all went up at the same time! What a sight! Then we went to the top of Pilot Butte (small hill in the middle of town) and watched the balloons flying across town it was absolutely breath taking! Then along with the balloon flight there was a festival down town of artist and food and vendors. One of the art displays was local folks who were doing chalk are on the foot bridge at the old mill! Such vivid colors and really interesting techniques were being used, the end results were awesome. At night at the Leshwab Theater they lit up 5 of the balloons and they were supose to go up but because of the wind couldn't, so they were just glowing on the ground. Along with the glow a local performance group of fire spinners took the stage and were spectacular! All in all it was a very fun free day of amazing activity.