Morning commute no so bad today

As I jumped out onto I12 this morning, heading toward work, it looked like a parking lot. As that same parking lot made me 15 minutes late yesterday, I was none too please to see a repeat. But then I looked up and the sky looked very much like this:



The balloon festival started over at Pennington today and I grinned all the way into work. All I wanted to do was head back to the Mississippi River Bridge and watch the balloons from there.

This balloon was in the air this morning:



I think I'm going to head out to get a battery for my camera then E and I can go over early Saturday morning so I can take some pics.