01 Friday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, light, moments, moon, pillar, pink sky, sky-watching, spectacular, sunrise, weather, widow
woke up early this morning and enjoyed some lovely sky-watching…
saw the most interesting light pillar… not long ago many photographers in the province had noted multiple columns in the sky, so I was excited to have spotted it…
the moon was visible out my bedroom window… and then there was a lovely sunrise…
spectacular way to start the day…
22 Friday Sep 2017
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, blessed, English Garden, flowers, friends, garden, spectacular, sun, treat, walk, widow
had a spectacular Friday off…
woke up later than normal (which in itself, is a treat) to sunshine and warm temperatures…
and lots of blooming flowers… what a treat…
out for a walk around the English and Leo Mol Gardens…
must have spent ten minutes watching all the painted ladies flitting about in the sunlight…
then lunch at The Park Cafe with a special friend and her baby…
and that was just the morning;-)…
04 Sunday Sep 2016
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big girl pants, Farmers Market, flight, hot air balloon, Lansdowne, Ottawa Day 4, sky, spectacular, widow
really going to need to have a vacation when I get home…
today we were up and out of the house by 5 am… decided we would see if we could get a hot air balloon flight… if it didn’t work this morning then that was a sign that we weren’t meant to go…
by 6:30 we had a flight booked and were heading to the Gatineau Airport for lift off…
although the expectation was that we would go straight up and come right back down as the air was very still, we were up for an hour and a half and went to 3000 feet…
spectacular… this time when we got back to the Park, we all had Apple Cider together and got pictures with Annie, one of the pilots of La Magie de L’Air… what a great team they are… maybe next time we will take in the International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu;-)…
then we headed to the Farmers Market at Landsdowne… lots of people there, most of whom seemed to be lined up for the bread…
we stopped at the Lindt store and Whole Foods for dinner supplies and headed home for a well deserved nap…
later we took a long list to IKEA and as we were leaving saw the balloons on their evening flight…
once home, we even saw a few as they floated through the air close by…
ended the day with a stunning light show…
01 Monday Sep 2014
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ballooning, big girl pants, fearless, finally, Intuit, spectacular
this morning we arrived at the sign-in area for the balloon rides… there wasn’t much wind and we could see lots of stars… the energy seemed higher but we didn’t want to get over excited…
we were called up to the lines and then the pilots came over and got us… we went to the seven sections of the field which were each divided into five or six areas…
the teams started to get their equipment out… it was amazing to stand in a field with thirty plus balloons filling with air…
each of the four times we had been, we took a photo in front of one of the trucks… this time we are in front of the balloon we will rise in…
after filling the balloon with air, they start to heat it and the basket stands up gently…
and the next thing we are in the air… we were the third balloon off the ground… watching the other balloons rise from the field was truly an unforgettable event…
we flew for 45 mind-expanding minutes and then floated down into a soccer field…
we walked the balloon from one end of the field to the other and then everything happened in reverse order, although the balloon didn’t want to give up flying and it was difficult to get the air out…
there were six balloons which landed in the field and everyone supported everyone else… great to see…
after a great ride back in the pursuit van we got a picture of the Intuit team, captain Hal Cooper, his two sons and two volunteers from the Festival, as well as the four of us who rode in the balloon…
the twenty-five year wait was worth it… I wasn’t afraid for even one second… wow…
