Hot Air Balloon

We went to Clear Lake today for the hot air balloon festival. Clear Lake is about 40 minutes from Houston and this is where the NASA space center is located. Last time we visited Clear Lake was in 2006 when my parents visited. We arrived at 5pm, just in time to see multiple hot air balloons being launched. We stayed till 8pm and saw the highlight of this event which is multiple hot air balloons being lit up at the same time. The scene is pretty amazing, like a wall of giant light bulbs illuminating the night sky. We sat very close to one of hot air balloon launch pad. We can feel the heat from the burner whenever the pilot fire up the burner. Meredith learned to cover her ears and buried her face into Boon Hong's arm when the burner is spitting fire into the balloon with searing heat and rumbling noise. She also learned how to say hot air balloon in chinese today.