While having dinner with the Charland family last Sunday (he's our Bishop at Church), we heard a loud noise over their back porch patio. We looked up, and there was a hot air balloon, right above their neighborhood, maybe 30 feet (around 10 meters) in the sky! I could have thrown a baseball to them they were so close. So we put on our shoes, and with the rest of the neighborhood, we ran a couple blocks and watched as this huge balloon hovered in the air and landed in the middle of the street! What a wierd experience to watch a hot air balloon land on a suburban street completely unannounced. Apparently there was no wind and they were going to run out of gas if they continued, and there was no better place around, so they just landed. They called a truck and we watched as they brought the balloon down, folded it up and put it in away. The whole thing only took 4 minutes! We told the Charlands that they really didn't have to go through all the trouble to arrange something like that for our sending off! Read about the rest of our good-bye dinners at our family blog.
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