Hot air balloon nails for an adventure

I did some quick nail art on Thursday night, because there was no way I was staying up late to do my nails last night.  We had to be up bright at early is morning to leave the house by 5.15am, as we were going on a balloon ride - Yippeee, it was fantastic, but first the nails.

I used Picture Polish sky as my base colour.  I printed out some water decals, cut them out individually and placed them on my nails. Every nail on both hands was different.

Now to the balloon ride.  We have a public holiday this weekend in Canberra, for Canberra day. However this year is special as it's the centenary of the city.  Every year during the 9 day long  Canberra festival they have a balloon festival, with balloons taking off from the lawns of old parliament house.  Today was the first day of the festival. Every year they bring in some 'special' balloons, this year there was a lions head, a turtle, a peacock and Darth Vader!  All the special balloons are privately owned, so you don't get to ride in those, but our regular balloon was just perfect.

Here are a couple of photos of balloons in the sky, it was around 7.45am and shows less than half the half the balloons.

A little earlier, and a lot higher, here is the view of Lake Burley Griffin, the National Museum and Commonwealth Avenue Bridge. We were able to get about 25 balloons in this shot.

A nail shot (of course), looking down over some of the embassies in Yarralumla.

And did I feel like a complete doofus taking this nail shot at 3500 feet in the air, with balloons in the background? YES, but what an awesome shot!

Lastly, here is the PRIME balloon that were were in - can you see me?

My Mum and Dad were so awesome, they came out with us at 5.15 in the morning and looked after Mr 4 and Miss 2, who both thought the experience was amazing.  The kids got to watch and help with inflating and packing away the balloon, and naturally Mr 4 wants to go on a balloon ride himself now, even though he can't see over the edge of the basket.  They all drove along behind the crew 4WD, following the balloon, waving up at us from the ground and taking lots of photos for us. Thank you M&D!

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Write by: Unknown - Saturday, March 9, 2013