The International Balloon Fiesta
Mass Ascension - Wednesday, October 8, Part 3

Tequila Rose (Arvada, CO)

Koshare Gallup (Gallup, NM)

Masha (Hoogstraten, Belgium)

The Lady Bug (Highlands Ranch, CO)

Trader Joe's balloon

Blue Southern Angel (Las Cruces, NM)

Joey Little Bee (Mesa, AZ), Lily Bee (Peoria, AZ)
The bumblebee special shapes start out holding hands, and then they separate.

Flying Cathedral (Kesswil, Switzerland) - before the sun was fully up.

Left: unknown balloon; right: Wayne's Air Toy (Rio Rancho, NM).

Flamebuoyant (Albuquerque, NM), Hsss Too (La Luz, NM)

Hopscotch (Edgewood, NM), Liberty (Fort Worth, TX)

Baskit a Nutz (Albuquerque, NM), Her Highness (Albuquerque, NM), Blacktie (Pataskala, OH)

Fired Up (Albuquerque, NM), Pita's Kiss (Albuquerque, NM), Silver Lining (Albuquerque, NM)

Bottom left: unknown balloon; Top: Flamebuoyant (Albuquerque, NM); Middle-right: Hss Too (La Luz, NM).

Bottom: DJ's Delight (Albuquerque, NM); Top left: Silver Spirit (Tucson, AZ); Top-right: American Pie (Rio Rancho, NM).

1: I.M.T.S (Columbia, MO); 2: Sky Candy (Rio Rancho, NM); 3: Phoenixson (Tempe, AZ); 4: Sunshine Fun Too (Noblesville, IN).

1: unknown; 2: Heaven's Quilt (Roswell, NM); 3: Peanuts Forever (Littleton, MA); 4: Sheryl K (Elsinore, CA).

1: Magic Moments VI (Fresno, CA); 2: Fresh Aire III (Cozed, NE); 3: Suzie "Q" (Colorado Springs, CO); 4: New Mexico Sunrise II (Albuquerque, NM).

1: unknown; 2: Crew Balloon (Cedar Crest, NM); 3: unknown; 4: New Mexico Sunrise II (Albuquerque, NM).

The Little Angel (Sao Paulo, Brazil); Strawberry (Vreden, Germany) on ground; Yellow jacket (Sao Paolo, Brazil) in distance; Sunsational (Mahomet, IL) - mostly yellow balloon below the angel; and Cloud Dancer (Claremont, MN) - red balloon below Sunsational.

1: unknown; 2: EZ2.105 (Colorado Springs, CO); 3: Double Trouble (Corrales, NM); 4: Good Neighbor Pharmacy (Temecula, CA); 5: Flamebuoyant (Albuquerque, NM); 6: Asimo (Jeffersonville, VT); 7: I'm Bananas II (Albuquerque, NM); 8: Daisy (El Paso, TX); 9 & 10: Lily Bee (Peoria, AZ) and Joey Little Bee (Mesa, AZ) - on the ground in the distance.

The Freedom Flight III balloon (St. Cloud, MN) is being filled.

1: Hearts Aloft (Tucson, AZ); 2: Hoppydaze (Fayetteville, NC); 3: New Mexico Sunrise II (Albuquerque, NM); 4: Aire-N Go Bragh (Albuquerque, NM); 5: unknown; 6: Blue Southern Angel (Las Cruces, NM); 7: Crew Balloon (Cedar Crest, NM).

The gondola car