This weekend was the big balloon race. This is our 5th year to participate and I am ashamed to say that I have never seen the balloons take off yet. They leave at 6:00 am and I always stay up too late to get up and look out the window of the motor home. Oh well, maybe next year.
Hannah brought along one of her friends (Kat) to help her this year:
The grizzled old veteran Tara joined us from Shreveport later in the evening. Tammy had a previous engagement and was unable to attend.
The girls did their best Charlie's Angels impersonation in front of the National Guard's Hummer:
while the boss and I paid homage to the A-Team:
We did a group shot in front of an A-10 Warthog:
Tara really liked the Warthog as it probably bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend:
There were some other nice planes:
and some great food: fried alligator, rabbit, squirrel, rattlesnake, froglegs, basically anything a Coonass can find living under their house:
I got the girls to eat some fried alligator and Tara ordered up some crawdads. And yes, she does suck the head:
The balloon glow is the highlight of the evening. It is pretty impressive to see 60 balloons lighting up at night:
I kept having to shoo away the boys:
I ended up going to bed about 3:00 am. It was a lot of fun, but Saturday was going to be a blast.
Continued in part 2.....
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