We often see hot air balloons on the horizon, we have even had a few fly over our neighborhood. Today was a first as a hot air balloon landed in an empty lot in our neighborhood. I could hear the people in the balloon yelling to our neighbors a few doors down, "Can we land here?" And then a few seconds later, "What is your gate code?" so that their retrieval vehicle could come and pick them up.
What I thought was kind of funny was that our neighbors directly to the East had a jumpy castle down by their beach. Their kids and a few of the neighbor's kids were jumping. Normally they would have been enthralled with the hot air balloon landing nearby, but today, they were more interested in jumping.
