Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival

  Every once in a while we step outside our house and there is a hot air balloon floating close or on the horizon. Sometimes there are many hot air balloons, and they always make me happy. One day I think I want to ride one. It is on my bucket list. Well every year there is a Balloon and Wine festival in the town near ours and Steve and I have been saying we were going to go to it for years. This year we actually did. You can watch the balloons be released and return, there are many venders selling all sorts of things, and several concerts.

We planned to wake up early to see the balloons return, but it was such a foggy morning the balloons were not released close to us. Instead we enjoyed walking around and spinning the wheels to win free stuff (lots of key chains and junk) and looking at all the vendors. Later that afternoon we went back to meet Steve's work friends and watch the concert.

 

 I had mentioned to my friend Annie that we were thinking of going to the festival and she suggested we stay to watch them light up the balloons. Since we hadn't seen them in the morning, we decided to stay out late and watch the balloons light up. I am so glad we did. 

This is my favorite pictures. Steve took it on his phone.

I think we found a fun yearly tradition.