Once a year in August the "Flying Circus" air show that's held at a small airfield near where we live has a balloon festival. We'd never gone before, so we decided to go this year.
We arrived at 7:30am since early morning is the best time for balloons to go up.
I took this picture because it shows a few of the bi-planes that regularly perform in the flying circus.
There weren't ever very many balloons in the air at one time.
Some of the hot air balloons came from other locations and landed at the air field.
I'm not sure why we didn't get any pictures of us with the hot air balloons.
The bi-planes were also flying as the hot air balloons were floating around.
The picture below was as the balloons were landing and being taken down.
Kent saw that people could pay for a ride in a bi-plane, and is now hoping to do it someday. It's pretty pricey, though.
After the balloon festival we drove to Winchester, Virginia, to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.
They had an art installation on the grounds of their garden.
All the "sculptures" were made with lego bricks!
These deer sculptures were life-sized.
Gardener Kent posing in the garden by the lego wheelbarrow.
Except for the hat, notice how Kent's clothes match the grandpa gardener in the lego sculpture below!
This bee and pansy were MUCH larger than life-sized.
There was a sign by each sculpture telling how many lego bricks it took to build each one.
This spider hanging in the tree would be a perfect Halloween decoration.
The gardens themselves were very nice, and even had a small section with a Japanese garden. Kent was quite enthralled with the place, and the lego sculptures were unique and fun to see.
It was a lovely August day for an outing in the countryside of Virginia!
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