It was too windy and rainy for the balloons to go up this morning. So we decided we would visit the Balloon Museum.
The Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque Balloon Museum presents the development of ballooning through scientific, historic, and artistic objects reflecting world-wide achievement in this field.
We waited in line to get in but we were free since we were with the Escapee Group.
A statue of a balloon, showing the beauty of New Mexico.
A closer look.
This is the closest we got to going up in a balloon. At this fiesta they were charging between $275 up to $450 a piece for a ride. We decided on this free picture.
One of the first cameras used in a balloon. A hole was cut in the bottom of the basket and this camera was stuck in to take the first aerial photographs.
This was a secret balloon that our government used to test how far humans could go up safely in space. This helped in the development of space suits and instruments later used in NASA's flights.
Lots of pins to collect. This is the 40th year.
A balloon carried the Olympic torch for 20 minutes for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. This is the shirt and torch that was worn and carried.
We enjoyed our tour, learned a lot and were thankful that it was not very crowded since the balloon didn't go up this morning.
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