Hot Air Balloon Ride
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

On a beautiful May Morning I went on a Hot Air Balloon flight. I had tickets for over two years trying to arrange a flight.  It was a more wonderfully experience than I could imagine. 

Every year at the beginning of September I try to make my way to Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival in Gatineau Quebec.  The same location we took off from. Here are some pictures and panoramas form previous years.  Below are five panoramas from the day of my flight and below them some pictures.

Panoramas
Setting up the balloon for our flight	Peanut balloon getting ready	All aboard and ready to fly	In the air over the Rideau River	In the air over Ottawa
Photographs
Getting ready to inflate the Sun balloon	The Sundance van	CTV balloon	Just after takeoff	The burners
Looking up	Small plane taking off from the airport directly underneith us	Jim (me)	Sue (mom-in-law)	landscape with the Quickie balloon in the distance
Quickie balloon	shadow of the balloon falling on some trees	shadow of the balloon	Looking down on some trees	Looking down stitched from several shots
Safe and sound back on the ground			parliament building

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