The 2011 International Balloon Fiesta is off to dashing start. The weather was perfiect. The rain stayed away, the wind did not wake up and it was not not even cold enough for mittens at 3:30 AM, the reputedly coldest time at the foot of the of the Sandia mountains.
Cars, some full of spectators, rolled in steadily from the opening of the gates at 3:30 AM. Morning patrol, with intermittent lights, took to the skies in the pre-dawn hours and mass ascension of varying shapes and sizes of balloons drifted aloft as dawn spilled over the mountains. later in the day I learned that more than 425 balloons floated off within an hour to create a new entry in the Guiness book of Records.
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