Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic

[Leigh]

http://www.sonomauncorked.com/wine-country-events/annual-events/sonoma-county-hot-air-balloon-classic/

(Thanks Maja! Your site is fantastic! :thumb)

Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic
Date: Sat, Sun, June 13th and 14th 2009.
Time: 5 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Cost: Adults $5 pre-sale, $8 gate - Children (ages 6-12).

Description:
The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic in Windsor, CA is a celebration of Wine Country's most beautiful sites. A parade of hot air balloons dotting the sky. This annual event is held at Keiser Park in Windsor and features two days of hot air ballooning, food, crafts, balloon rides (tethered to the ground, so the balloon goes only 50 feet up) and other fun.

The Sonoma Hot Air Balloon Classic is a very kid friendly event, from your jumpie rides to a climbing wall to an old hot air balloon with fanned in air so people can explore inside of it. There's plenty of coffee and breakfast items to nosh on.

The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic is for early risers. One of the highlights is the dawn patrol. In the wee hours of the morning, 3 hot air balloons take off. The site is nothing short of spectacular, with the fire that heats the balloons lighting up the morning sky. Check out the video.

Notables:
It must be noted that sometimes the weather grounds the balloons from taking off and instead the balloons stay tethered to the ground but go up 50 - 100 ft. The site is still great and regardless, it will be a day to be remembered.

Address: 700 Windsor River Road.
City: Windsor.
State: California.
Zip: 95492.
Phone number: 707.837.1884.
Web page: http://www.schabc.org/

[MamaLaura]

This is on our calendar!

[surmick]

Wish we could go but we have like a hundred things that weekend!!!

[meeg124]

This is a pretty cool event but it always seems to happen on the hottest weekend of the year!

[stephscrazy05]

i think i just might have saturday off! wow maybe we will go... is anyone else going and is it on the SCM calender?

[becky]

I wanna go but I don't know if we can afford the tickets. It looks like so much fun though

[jellybeanmichelle]

Is there a good spot to park on a mountain or something and see it from there?

[Brookepanda]

Oh what fun! I think I will tell dh about this!!

[Christyn95]

I want to go, but it starts at 5am!!! I'm not a morning person, nor is Morgan :giggle

[Shawna]

We were hoping to go to this again this year since the boys had such a great time last year. They loved the big Energizer bunny. Sadly we have too much going on this weekend to get the boys up that early. Oh well. We will see them from our house those mornings. Austin loves pointing all the balloons out to Nathan and I while driving to school in the morning.

[Marisa]

We'll be going. We're going to try to get there super early too but that may or may not actually happen. Brianna has been talking about this event for a YEAR!

[Theresa]

i love to go, but it's too early. we did it once and just went over in our pj's and had muffins and coffee on blankets watching.

[L and F's Momma]

We missed this last year. Thank you for reminding me! We are going!

[Shanta]

We will be going Sunday

Oh and you should be able to see them really well from the play yard in ventana the one that is gated :)

[erin22]

This looks, so, so fun! Thanks for the post!

[tcolera]

We went early and saw the first few, but Kylie had a meltdown so we missed the larger group of balloons. Was still really cool to see and we are planning on going back tomorrow to see what we missed. :)

[alowe]

We made it there by 5:15. We had fun, came home and napped.

[tcolera]

Yeah we got home at about 7am and slept till 11am, we were exhausted.

[lovesthebaby]

We were there at 6:30 for the main launch, it was really awesome to see all the balloons going up and Jacob loved it!