Hot Air Balloons???

The balloon burners to the left and right of Shane and the boys

Yesterday we attempted to watch the balloon glow as part of the Cherry Blossom Festival activities. All week long I had been hoping that the weather would work out for us to go because the boys just love seeing pictures of hot air balloons so I wanted them to be able to see some real ones. During the day on Saturday the weather was beautiful as it was a nice warm day with the high around 80 but the forecast called for a chance of showers. Well, when it was time for us to leave to go out to the balloon glow some rain had come through, but it looked to be clearing some so we decided to chance it that we'd be able to see the balloons. Bad decision. We drove out to east Macon and got out of our vehicle and man was it cool and windy. Because of all the wind and wet ground the officials decided not to have the balloon glow but to rather only have the people who owned the balloons to burn their propane burners. We were so disappointed. We did see a few planes do a few tricks from the air show while we were there though, but even they were having trouble with all the wind and low clouds. Oh well, maybe next year.