Up Up and Away......morning pictures of the mass lift off of the balloons at the Colorado Springs Balloon Festival.

Arkie, the Noah's ark float is a fan favorite as well as tweety bird!

Yet more pictures from the balloon festival.

More pictures from the balloon festival........

Some more pictures from the colorado springs hot air baloon classic glow night.

These are some pictures from the Colorado Springs Hot Air Baloon Classic. It was glow night this evening and the weather was perfect for it. The classic goes on the entire labor day weekend. Every morning there is a group lift off early in the am. So check back for some pictures of that!

Well our visit is almost to an end....Michelle heads back to san diego on friday and Gary and Cindy head back to Fort Myers on Saturday.....fortunately we all went out for a nice lunch today and decided to head to Helen Hunt Falls for a picture of all of us and to our surprise got to see a huge boar black bear eating choke cherries alongside the road!

Yet More Pictures from CO...

More Pictures from Mt Evans, which had about a foot of snow or more a few days before these pictures were taken

Just more pictures from our vacation week.