Hot Air Ballooning

Well im pretty sure now that i have done just about all i can in Alice. I have now been hot air ballooning. 3.00am we got picked up by downunder ballooning. Yep, that is 3 oclock in the morning. we had a few more pick-ups to make then off we went to find a launch site. We stopped on the side of the road and the pilot let off a balloon, this had a light in it so you could see which way the wind was blowing. After watching the balloon we headed for our launch site. Waited, waited, waited... then got told, sorry the wind is to strong, we're not going. But we'll try again tomorrow. So at 3.00am the next morning we were up again, looking worse than we did the first morning. Picked up more people and once again found ourselves looking up at the sky watching a little balloon with a light in it. Headed for a different launch site, and waited... every now and then watching yet another little balloon rise into the sky. We're Going!!! So out comes the balloon, it is massive. on goes the basket, in goes the hot air. The basket gets laid on its side, we all jump in sideways and before you know the balloon has raised the basket, with all of us in it, to a standing position again. This is the quick version of course, all together this would have taken a good hour to complete. Then with help from the ballooning team, we had lift off. Yeah!!! It was very peaceful floating across the sky, except for when the burners went off. We only got to a 100mts up, and unfortunately the only thing we saw were cattle. No big red kangaroos. So half an hour later and after hitting one tree we bunny hop to a stop. I think the best part of it was the setting up of the balloon. The packing up of it was a bit of hard work. It was all worth it tho, we got back to find a very nice breakfast waiting for us. Yum yum yum...