When we moved to New Brunswick, we got our hands on a New-Brunswick tourism guide. We found several things that we wanted to do in the guide and at the time we said “we will have to remember this for next summer”. One of these things was the Atlantic International Balloon Festival.

The week end of the festival finally arrived and we all went to Sussex, about 1.5 hours drive from home. We arrived early in the afternoon to see the launch of the balloons at around 5:00pm. During the afternoon we walked around the festival ground and we had a look at some old cars that were on display and all of the kiosks that were there.

Unfortunately the launch had been delayed because of the windy conditions. But the children had a good spirit so we decided to wait for a little bit. At around 18:30 the wind died down and the first balloon went up.

This was followed by several others.

We stayed there to watch them as they were filling up the sky, quite a show. We had a real good time and spent a perfect day out.

Lorsque nous sommes déménagés au Nouveau-Brunswick, on avait mis la main sur un guide touristique du Nouveau-Brunswick. On avait trouvé plusieurs choses que nous voulions faire et on s’etait dit “va pas falloir oublier ca pour l’été prochain”. Une de ces choses-là etait le festival international de montgolfières de l’Atlantique.

Elle a ete suivie par plusieurs autres.

On est resté là à les regarder remplir le ciel, tout un spectacle. On a passé un apres-midi parfait.