Comic Book Hot Air Balloon Festival 2013

We thought Ryan would have to work this weekend so we didn't have set plans on Saturday.  So when he got his work done half way through the week we realized we needed to do something fun.  Ryan figured out that the comic book hot air balloon festival was happening downtown.  The kids love the bus so we jumped on and headed downtown.  By going a little earlier, the kids were able to do all the ids activities without standing in line.  It worked out perfectly.  Kherington had recently been asking to get her face painted and jump on a bouncy castle so being able to do both for free was pretty sweet.  She decided she wanted a butterfly.  Kevin didn't want anything...not even a glitter tattoo.  They also made comic buttons by choosing a picture from a comic book and having the worker snap the button together right then and Kherington started on a dog mask but didn't finish it.  The bouncy toys were way more fun than coloring pictures.

They had some of the hot air balloons already tied up and ready for the parade.  The kids thought it was pretty silly to walk under them and let the wind blow the balloon into them.  We also got to watch superman being blown up.  We opted not to wait the couple hours for the parade and instead headed home for naps.

The evening we went back downtown for a comic screening.  It didn't turn out as expected though.  First we were 30 minutes off on the start time so we had to wait an extra 30 minutes on top of our early arrival.  Then when they started they were just drawing cartoon.  Pretty disappointing since when they were working on the lighting they had the building all lit up (see pic) for a comic movie.  we held out a little while before calling it quits and didn't even get to see the comic show.  We do a lot of random things...sometimes they workout and sometimes they don't. This was definitely one of our fails.