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Great Time With Hot Air Balloon Ride

In my town, when September arrives it is always a nice sight to see hundreds of hot air balloons gathering on a huge grass field and watching them take off in the early morning. Indeed every year we have a Hot Air Balloon festival and one of the main events is the colorful hot air balloon lift off. Thousands of people gather on the grass and watch them take off. People that own these hot air balloons come from everywhere around the globe. Many come from Europe, United States, Australia and England. Almost everyone have a camera and are taking pictures. Depending of the wind they might just fly over head of the crowd and this is at that point when I took my best pictures.

But  Hot air ballooning is something that I never really wanted to learn. It is not that I was afraid of it, it is just that it is so far outside of my experience that I was utterly unprepared. However, one of my friends is always thinking of new things to do.  When he saw advertisements for the hotairballoon festival, he was instantly excited. He couldn't talk about anything besides hot air balloons for weeks!

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I don't think it had anything to do with his feelings about the hot air balloon. I had never heard him mention hot air balloons, dirigibles, blimps, zeppelins, or any other related aircraft. Yes, watching a hot air balloon take to the clouds can be beautiful, but he is not one for prolonged aesthetic contemplation. I think his whole attraction to hot air balloon rides was the fact that he had never gone on one before. When you add in the fact that none of our friends have done it either, it became irresistible for him. That is just the way that his mind works.

He kept asking me to go along with him to the hotairballoon festival. I had an interest in seeing the hot air balloon races, but not taking a ride on one. My friend and I have a long-standing tradition. We take turns picking outings. Usually, I drag him to something he does not want to go to or he drags me to something I don't want to go to. We try to be good sports about it. That way, we each have a friend to accompany us to events that our other friends will not go to.

But I must say that hot air balloon events is quite interesting for both of us. My friend likes the thrills of going on a ride and taking pictures from the air while I prefer staying on the ground and taking pictures of hot air balloons from the safety of solid ground.