Up at 4:45 to get ready for getting together at 5:15 in the lobby for our van to the balloon launch. One of the vans locked their keys inside so we had to wait for that before we could leave the hotel. We launched from Mariposa park. Danny and I held the balloon open so that the thing could be inflated with cold air. Once inflated, the gas was turned on and the balloon heated and lifted. We each got in and we were off. It was so great. The lift was smooth and serene. We rose quickly. I looked at the ground and asked how high we were. The answer 6,500 feet. Wow, that was fast.
It was so serene to be gliding in the air currents, I loved every minute of it. I'm amazed at how quiet it was and how we silently drifted along. We had a touchdown in a field and were promptly picked up by the chase van. After folding the balloon and loading the basket we were driven back to the park 7 miles away where we had some breakfast snacks and a Mimosa toast which consisted of champagne mixed with Orange Juice. We had a picture in front of the van then headed back. We had the hotel breakfast late which wasn't very good compared to yesterday. Because Libbie's phone had run out of storage I went to Walmart and picked up a 32gb SD card and a sandwich wrap in Walmart for some one stop shopping. The sandwich was quite good.
Wednesday evening we sat outside with Linda and Barbara from Philly and ordered a plate of fish tacos at 5:30. By 7 PM we finally had to cancel because Libbie was working classification and needed to get back. We went out at 9 PM down Manual looking for food and stopped into a Sonic drive in. This was our first Sonic experience and it wasn't bad. I had a grilled chicken combo which came with tater tots and a drink. Libbie had the sandwich only with a bottle of water. We shared the tater tots which weren't very good but the sandwich was excellent.