Left home Friday and drove 454 miles to attend the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM.  Our reservations/rv space didn't include electricity, sewer, or water....so we were boondocking it with two adults, four children and three dogs, in a 27 foot TT. 

If you haven't attended the Balloon Fiesta, you need to add it to your bucket list! Friday we attended the Special Shape Glowdeo and the AfterGlow Fireworks Show.  Saturday the Dawn Patrol passed over the campground followed by the Mass Ascension.  There were other events at the launch field too, the Echo Regional Chainsaw Carving Competition, Balloon Pin Trading, a lot of vendors, etc.  Saturday evening included the Night Magic Glow and another Fireworks Show.  The Farwell Mass Ascension was held @ 7:00 AM Sunday morning and it was truly awesome! 

We watched the Farwell Mass Ascension from the campgrounds and I am glad we did.  We were sitting in our lounge chairs taking photos of all of the balloons and I noticed several of the balloons seemed to be descending instead of ascending.  I realized they were not going to clear the power lines at the back side of the campground and the pilot must have realized this too because they decided to land/crash inside the rv park.  The first balloon to come down landed hard, it hit a concrete pad, bounced and came to rest within a few feet of a TT at the back of the park.  The second one came within 3 feet of hitting the rooftop a/c on the motorhome next to us!  The pilot of the balloon was screaming for everyone to grab/catch the balloon and I did manage to grab two of the handles on the bottom of the basket, felt like my arm was going to be jerked out of it's socket.  Several other people ran to help and we got the balloon stopped and we held on to it until the balloon chasers arrived to take over.  Boy, we had a great time!!!

On our return trip we stopped at the Meteor Crater RV Park near Winslow, AZ and we spent a day touring the Meteor Crater.  We are back home now but I sure can't wait to go fulltime rving.