When we got up this morning  we had to start the generator to recharge our batteries. Our clock which projects on the ceiling, was so low on power during the night that you couldn’t even read it. We both thought there was something wrong with our eyes. There were other generators running and we felt bad about the noise but we had to do it.

It turned out to be a really beautiful day and there were a bunch of balloons up by 8 am as opposed to yesterday when it took them a while to get stirring. We took a walk down by the marina again trying to get a view of balloons touching the water but no luck. I think the place to go to see them in the water is over where the water goes under the London Bridge.

We made the mistake of leaving the campground in the Tracker for a “quick” trip to the store around noon. That was a mistake. There was a line a mile long of bumper-to-bumper cars heading right past our campground toward the main entrance to the event. It took us about 45 minutes to get back “home” after our “quick” trip.

We made another trip back to the event but this time we walked – on prior trips we drove the Tracker to the free parking lot and then walked the last quarter-mile. It was a pretty comfortable walk along the shoulder of the road and probably made up for that huge sandwich I had for lunch while there.

We spent the afternoon napping and reading. We may or may not go back over there tonight but probably not. Heading for home tomorrow morning.