Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Saga international balloon festa 2008 2nd day

Balloon Fantasia ~ All the interesting balloons assemble at the launch site! A lot of anime characters and cute animals line up alongside the river. If the weather permits, it may be possible to enter the launch area, which is not usually open to the public. You will be able to see these extraordinary gigantic balloons close up.

In the morning of Nov. 1(Sat.), bacause of the fog over the hall was not dispelled ,implementation of the task flight became difficult. Although a hot air balloon task is not held, a free flight (takeoff) is performed from the Kase river dry riverbed main lunch site by judgment of a pilot. A game pilot is expected to take off from order 8:30. We've waited at the river side for 2 hours. The information told us the task has been canceled. But luckly, most of the pilot performed a free flight. It was really nice of them to show us the balloon. I went with my mother, and it was her first time to see hot ari balloon. I wake her up 5am so, she was getting bit tired, but pilot starts get ready for a free flight, my mother was so excited. I was glad to show her this event. And it was really nice for me to see this balloon. Just wonderful

1 comment:

Ben said...

Looks like you had fun! This was my first time as a volunteer at the Saga Balloon Fiesta, but I think I was the only foreigner living here to volunteer to help out. It was so much fun I was kind of kicking myself for not volunteering for the last few years. Definitely something worth doing if I'm still in the area next year. I managed to make a short video of the balloons on my blog over at http://mlr.inktails.com