Ballooning @ 5.30am

Surprise! Happy 40th Birthday Husband. I am sure that's not what he wanted to hear at 4.30am. But i did keep it a secret for so long. when it came to the day before the forecast was not good. only 40% chance that the wind was going to be light and the rain was going to hold off and there was a thunderstorm forecast......

IS IT BALLOONING :-)

yes. i am so glad he was pleased.....

the day unfolded......

Meet at a local heritage hotel -Hyatt -for a debrief. travel about 30min north and check the forecast again. Let of a helium balloon and make a final decision (my fingers are crossed soooo hard - if we had not have lifted off the 4.30 start would have been a sore spot all weekend)


30 min later and we are holding the balloon filling it with cold air - watching the sunrise

add some hot air and its ready for lift off. OK a glass of champagne

up up and away. so peaceful, so smooth and ok some strawberries and more champagne

float over Canberra for about 45 minutes and ready for landing

the bestest bestest landing ever, not even a slight bump just a gentle as a bird.

pack the balloon in a down pour of rain :-(

picnic of coffee/hot choc/strawberries and the best homemade chocolate sauce - sorry recipe was a secret but so good.

back to the Hyatt for more champagne - traditional prayer and blessing of the balloon.

buffet breakfast - we will be returning for a buffet breakfast again this was good!

stage two of surprise unfolds

now to our spa hotel for the rest of the weekend. we had a mountain of sleep to catchup on and basically didn't leave the room. room service dinner in our PJ's

and well back to reality today.

but we have come home to all 10 fish in the pond living :-) and marks birthday day on Tuesday. more surprises? well at least his real birthday present.....

The ballooning company if you want to check out how much fun we had

www.beballooning.com.au