Surprise Visitors

On Friday night, we had some surprise visitors. We were outside playing in the yard when we heard some loud fire/torch noises. We looked up and saw a hot air balloon sailing over our house. It was landing in the park. We raced over there (along with many neighbors that live along the trail) and got there in time to see it touch down. Their "chase truck" was there so they started to pack everything up. The crew was great and let all the kids in the park help squeeze the air out of the balloon so they could fold it up. It was more excitement than we are used to in Applegate!