Every year, The Saturday before Mexican Independence Day, (Sept. 16) there is a balloon festival at the soccer field in Ajijic. The locals spend many hours preparing for this event. Sometimes the Balloons spend hours in the sky, and, sometimes only minutes.
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| There were approximately 4,000 people who attended this year. |
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| One of the more colorful entries. |
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| If you look close you can see a water bottle that is used for ballast. |
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| Can you tell this team had one of the more successful launches? |
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| Okay, so it's not quite like the Albuquerque Balloon Festival, but one of these years.!!! |
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| Houston, we have a problem! |
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| About 1/3 of the balloons burn and fall to the ground. Nobody got hurt this year. |
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| I think Kermit the Frog was the best in show. |
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| Lots of local balloon teams and lots of locals in attendance. |
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| This was a nice entry also. Some of these teams spent a lot of time making these balloons. |
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| You would think these two were launching balloons all day long! |
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