balloon festival

Last night we went to the Balloon Festival at Southern Hills Hospital and had so much fun! It was really cool to see the balloons up close and to watch them get ready to launch. At the festival they had carnival rides, games, balloons and food. Every kids perfect Friday night! One of the games was a hula hoop contest. Jocelyn won round after round and was the hula hoop champion of the night! She won a lounger bag. She has ALWAYS excelled at the hula hoop and she took this so seriously. I love her. As great as winning the hula hoop contest was, that wasn't even their favorite part of the night. As we are walking around they see a couple kids with a bag of fish. They HAD to find the game that was giving out fish. My kids are very good at negotiations. I told them I wasn't going to pay for the games. $5 each for a game. Nope. SO, I could see them talking to this guy and they knew I wasn't going to pay for them to play. All of the sudden they come rushing towards me. They are yelling, "he said if we help him clean up the ping pong balls we could have a fish". Oh, good grief. Well, I caved. So now we have two goldfish. One named Fatso and the other Fishy. Our first pets, and probably our last. Kai said, I would rather have a dog, but I am happy about our fish. I am happy to report that they made it through the night!!

The balloon festival is going on the rest of the weekend. Tonight they are doing another balloon glow show from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Tomorrow starting at  6:00 a.m. they will have the hot air balloon launch, carnival rides, kids crafts and balloon rides. Go check it out.

Hope you have a great weekend!