Crazy Weekend - or The Jellies!!

We started the weekend with Ana's comp game # 1, which they won 7-1. We then left immediately for Tahoe where we swam like 3x it was kinda cool temperature wise but not too cool. Later that evening I went down to the knoll hot tub with Ana. It was nice to hear the wind howling as I sat in the hot water. I you closed your eyes you could imagine there was a raging blizzard. We barely slept we needed to leave at 4am for Reno. When we arrived in Reno some balloons were just taking off. In the first light of the morning they would "glow" as they lit the fire for take off. Sunlight quickly warmed everything up, and we got to see close to 100 balloons take off. We picked a spot high up on an outlook over the park. We didn't know then but discovered it was an awesome spot to be for watching the balloons. Several times they were floating all around us fairly close bobbing up and down like jellyfish. their closeness almost suffocating. It was an incredible experience. The kids loved it. When the first balloon came really close huffing at it re fired itsel Nolan was a little scared. He would cling to us.. by the end he would say , " it's not coming down." Almost still a question . The idea for the trip was to have all of us do some great photography. We had each of the kids use a camera, Ben & I used the canon D's. Ana used the old AE-1. I will add more of our hundreds of pictures later.