Well, no mass ascension at the Balloon Fiesta this morning. Pretty disappointing for us and for our friends Jeff and Vicki Jones who flew down from SLC to see it (they may try one more time tomorrow morning). It was too windy-- not to bad on the ground but 50mph winds aloft. So instead the fiesta devolved into two Brazilians having an hour long contest to see who could throw a longer flame. Remember that guy who commuted on his bike to save the world? Well...
So, I bought a lens this past week (a Sigma 15-30mm ultra wide angle zoom). It is another Craigslist lens, but this time it seems to have worked out quite a bit better. I bought if from a guy at a photo studio in the South Valley here. I went down with a friend from work during lunch hour; we ate El Modelo stuffed sopas to celebrate that garage sale/Craigslist high. The guy sold it with a 10D- Canon's first generation prosumer camera (by the way, I think I'm more on the ...sumer side). The 5th generation (50D) is the latest and greatest. I currently use a 30D (8MP by the way)...
So we salvaged our early morning by going on a quest to find the Spammobile for Erin. Eat your SPAM Polynesian heart out Erin.
The ladies of SPAM are always so happy to rid themselves of their product. 
Allie whined until we found a trash can where we could throw away the SPAM so she could eat the bun. Mac and Cheese couldn't even disguise the SPAM yesterday for lunch. And here we have Luke in a Spamatose condition.
Sorry Luke, no dragon balloon this morning. He was quite disappointed and just went back to sleep. I'll need to play some more with this lens-- too bad there were no balloons to photograph. And they were actually excited and cheerful this time when we pulled them out of bed at 5am. 
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Since most of you will probably miss this- if you click on the photo of burning Brazilians, you will see one of the Balloon Fiesta's fun traditions- Crazy hats. The man on the left is wearing a chicken dressed as Elvis (gold cape and all) on his head. It is Elvis-chicken-hat. For a better look go to:
http://www.shiptheweb.com/epages/ShipTheWeb.storefront/EN/product/ELP&2DU5522&2DADULT
Joy
Ok and my link did not work (it got cut off). So google Rock & Roller Clucker hat and you will see it.
Spamatose? That's a great new word. Congratulation Mom J.
I love that spamatose Luke still has the Spam sandwich firmly in his grip. I must have been thinking about the Spam mobile this week just knowing that it would be there at the Balloon Fiesta. Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, wonderful Spam! We bought a can on a whim the other day, and I think we will end up having Spam Polynesian sometime soon...
So...is the SPAM Mobile some sort of balloon fiesta tradition then? Is there a SPAM balloon?
The balloon fiesta is so much fun! That's awesome you guys get to go each and every year!! And I loved the pictures from the other post with that family in from out of town. A child's dream = having so many kids in one house at one time. I seriously can't think of anything better right now. I wish I was one of them that week!
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