hot air balloon fiesta: Albuquerque Balloon Glow
- 10/27/10 07:21 AM
Even the "Special Shapes" balloons like this Bee Family were glowing at the "Balloon Glow" in Albuquerque during the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta this month!
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Researchers also cited our abundant days of sunshine, the annual International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, and fourteen (2 comments)
hot air balloon fiesta: International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque
- 10/02/08 12:39 PM
Well, it's balloon fiesta time again in New Mexico! Yes, the International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta wafts into Albuquerque this weekend, as it does every October. Visitors and residents are treated to morning mass ascensions of hundreds of colorful balloons, including many "special shapes," while evenings bring "balloon glows," fireworks, and even a "Special Shapes Glow-deo!" There are flying competitions, and even special events for gas balloons. October 3-12 are the days set aside this year for the Balloon Fiesta. Each morning, hundreds of balloonists assemble at the 78-acre balloon fiesta park in the pre-dawn hours, and soon are filling ALbuquerque's azure (2 comments)
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