While I was home for Emily's surprise party, my sisters and I managed to squeeze in a road trip to the balloon fiesta in New Mexico and the Grand Canyon and the Great Sand Dunes...in 3 days. We slept in the car every night and caught both sunrise and sunset every day. We chose to afford ourselves one luxury : a coin-operated warm shower in a campground for 8 glorious minutes. We debated just getting one shower and switching every 2 and 1/2 minutes, but decided in the end that it was worth the splurge to each have our own!
The first day we woke up at 4:00am, after sleeping in the car for 2 hours, and hopped on a bus to the Balloon Fiesta Fairgrounds. The initial launch in the morning was amazing, as well as the mass ascension that followed. After this we waited around at the fair all day for the night glow that was supposed to come that evening. All three of us crashed on the lush lawn underneath a picnic table for 4 hours in the middle of the day and unfortunately the night glow was canceled due to weather, so we got in the car and drove on to the next destination- the Grand Canyon.
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