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Here they Come!
Our friends who own this website took us to the Brandon Balloon Festival on April 28 at 7:00 am to see the take off of the 60 balloons in the program.
The funny thing is that many of our animal relatives were full of hot air that
day.
 Here
they come! The mist was still on the horizon as the balloons took off and landed
at the Vandenberg Airport outside of Brandon Florida. It was a beautiful sight!
The whooshing of the hot air was the only sound you could hear coming from the
balloons.
 From
our vantage point the balloons were landing at the end of a runway at the
airport. There were many of our animal relatives in flight that day. Remax was
there to "resettle" any of our relatives who wanted to make a move to
the warm Florida climes.
 You
can see a bear near the ground in the middle of the pack of these balloons. It
was so exciting to see our distant relatives getting a "lift" like
this!
The Wind Beneath Their Tails
 OOPS!
There goes one of those human balloon pilots off course. Not all the balloon
made it to the end of the runway and needed to be chased by their crews to get
them safely home.
 On
the right is the crew packing up the off course balloon and its human crew.
 OH
OH! There goes another of those wandering off course human balloons! Boy it sure
was fun to watch the crews trying to manipulate to keep as close to the airport
as possible, however, sometimes the wind was the winner!
 On
the right is our "Northern Relative" the Polar Bear. He seemed to get
a real charge being in the Florida climate.
Hot in pursuit of the polar bear was that crazy ice cream cone
of Baskin Robbins.
 On
the right, is the cone landing. Wow image all the Hot Fudge Sundaes we could
have with all that ice cream!
 Hey!
Look Up! Its a plane! Its a Dino! Its a Dino Balloon! How great it was to see our
ancestor taking part in this inspiring and elevating day!
BUT wait just one nanosecond, could it be our Dino cousin has
gone off course? Is it possible that the greatest example of the "Animal
Kingdom Past" was being pulled off course by that crazy silly wind?
On the right, you can see that sadly it was true, our Dino
cousin was following a path similar to that wandering human we had seen before.
It looked like our Dino, might just take over the woods and
claim it as his own. OR........
Better yet it looked like he was going to.......
 And
by golly he did! Here is our Dino-mite cousin claiming as his own this office
building which was in his path. It looks like the Dino wants to set up a
counseling service for all of his current and past relatives to help them better
understand what is like to be extinct.
 And
if Dino does this kind of trick again at some other Balloon Festival, he better
watch out! He could end up like this "ole bag of bones" mastodon,
which we saw this March at the University of Florida Museum of Natural Science in
Gainesville.
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A GREAT DAY°º¤ø,¸¸¸,ø¤º`°º¤~ø
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Family Album please email them along to me at jjmess@tampabay.rr.com
and put in the Subject area: For Monkey Business. Thanks. Jim Messina
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