No Balloon Ride

Sorry for my lack of blogging yesterday; I took the day off of work in an attempt, once again, to ride in a hot air balloon. Many of my readers contributed to this fund, and I would really like to thank you by actually taking a hot air balloon ride and then blogging about it, but this has proven an elusive goal. Last autumn Travalon and I made a couple of attempts to go hot air ballooning, but we were thwarted by weather. We sort of forgot about it this summer with all the festivals to attend, but now we are trying again in earnest to actually do it. Yesterday did not start off promisingly, but the thunderstorm subsided while Travalon and I had brunch at the Pancake Café (with Kona coffee! Yum!), and by the time we got to New Glarus, the sun was shining. It was a beautiful day as we wandered about the town, checking out antique stores and the candy store. We went to the New Glarus brewery and sat in their beer garden, which is full of pseudo-Medieval cathedral remnants that are a lot of cheesy fun. We ran around the beer garden, ducking into the fake turrets and chapel remnants, enjoying the beautiful day and wondering if the balloon really couldn’t go up in such lovely weather. As we headed back to Madtown, the storm hit with full force, so that answered that question. Had we been in the balloon, we probably would have been blown into Illinois and possibly hit by lightning for good measure. Since I had been planning to miss my OTHER choir practice anyway, we went to see the movie The Butler, about a guy who was a butler in the White House for over twenty years, and his son who was a Freedom Rider and a Black Panther at one point. It’s a really good flick, based (pretty loosely) on a true story. The balloon ride has been rescheduled for early October. Stay tuned…

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