Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hot air ballooning in Wine Country

We headed up to Napa + Sonoma for Jenny's birthday weekend! We arose at 5.30am to take a hot air balloon ride down Napa Valley - courtesy of an amazing wedding present from Sarah + Nicola!
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Inflating our balloon
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Jenny climbs in!
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Liftoff - after we climb in it...er..well, we start to float :) These guys are pulling it away from those trees.
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Shadow of our balloon over vineyards and workers pruning the vines.
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Little would you know that we're floating 1000 feet in the air!
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The view down the valley
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Vineyards
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Our chase - these guys follow the balloon and watch where we land. They fold up the balloon and take us back to base.
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Back on solid ground: Deflation
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Keeping the balloon off the vines
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Like getting a sleeping bag into its cover. Only harder.
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