International Balloon Festival

6 Feb

This past weekend we decided not to go to our chalet in the mountains due to the fact that Henry had 3 stitches in his chin and our luck something would have happened to them. It’s alway high activity up at the chalet 🙂 It was a great weekend with a lot of family time, walks, parks and sunshine! On Saturday we discovered a park that’s not even a 10 minute walk away. It’s such a great one too with a little toddler pool for summertime, swings, wooden train house with slide, a fun merry go round, a few more playground toys and it also has a little fenced in zoo. It’s amazing what you find at the parks here. The park we had been going to (Park Mon Repos) is a bird park and has over 6 huge bird cages with a variety of beautiful birds. We always visit it before and after the playground. Anyway, Saturday was just an all around great day. The hubby and I ended the evening with our first fire in the living room, the glass doors open and the snow falling outside – perfection!

On Sunday we walked to a new church that was about 20 minutes away, grabbed a few chocolate croissants at the neighborhood bakery on the way home, had a little lunch and playtime and packed the car for a fun afternoon! The balloon festival was about 1 hour 20 minutes away which was perfect for the boys to catch a nice nap. The town the festival was held in was the balloon capital of Switzerland and absolutely beautiful. The event was cancelled on Saturday due to heavy snow, which made a great day for us on Sunday. They had a couple huge sledding hills for the kiddos with some nice new powder 🙂 We arrived just in time for the air show and then next was the colorful balloon flight along with helicopter rides. We had a great spot to watch all the action, right in between the helicopter pad and the pad where the balloons took off from. It was like a huge carnival, all with food from all over Europe, beer, you name it.

Here are few of the photos we captured.