The End

2006 World Hot Air Balloon Championships
Tochigi, Japan

Shawn Raya, Jeff Pestun, Paul Petrehn, Erica Hahn, Joe Zvada

Home at last

We arrived back in Michigan yesterday afternoon. The flight home was great - it was only about 90 minutes shorter than the flight there, but it seemed much quicker. We had great seats with a lots of legroom (row 25 on a Northwest 747-400) and with the plane only about 50% full, there was tons of room to stretch out. We also got to watch the sun rise from 39,000+ feet in the air, which was quite a sight.

Now we'll spend a couple days catching up and doing laundry before we all head to the Holiday Balloon Fest in Battle Creek. Oh, and we'll also try to get over the jet lag as well.

Thanks again to everyone for reading my posts the last couple weeks. There will be 1 more after this one, then my balloon blog days are done for awhile (perhaps until Austria in 2008?).