Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Independence day!

Balloon and air show festival so far.
It's a blast.
On thursday I worked from 3am to midnight and then today I had to be at the station at 4am and worked until 10am. We came back Grand Rapids and I finally caught up on sleep. I had to come into the station tonight too to film the downtown fireworks. Tomorrow and sunday I work 4am to midnight again. HAHAHA. It's crazy, I know, but the pay check will be nice.
The festival is a ton of fun. Yesterday was kind of a practice day for our crew and I'm already enjoying it. This morning I rode in a hot air balloon for about an hour and filmed. It's was really cool. I was kind of afraid I would drop the camera out of the basket :P I'm going to try and get some of the footage and post it, but I'm not sure if I can use it or not.
I might also be deaf by the end of the week. Those jets are load!!! haha. Thank god for ear plugs! I don't think I'll be able to go up in a jet... but maybe a smaller plane, still cool though.
Anyways, I better get back to work. I'll try giving everyone a call next week after I catch up on my sleep :P Hope everyone enjoys their forth :)

This is a f-15 jet and a mustang of some sort? flying together.


At night, all the balloonist get together and "light up" their balloons together. Really need. Sometimes they'll do a "wave" or twinkle all of them.


This was my favorite balloon


I took this pic with my cell phone after we landed this morning.

2 comments:

Stacy said...

That sun ballon is really cool. I would have loved to seen them light up at night. Looks like a lot of fun.

Kelly said...

I like all the unique balloons. I really like the sun balloon also, that's really cute. How many balloons are in the show? Looks like a alot of fun. It would be neat to see all of those in the air!