Well what an experience our lovely family bought for us, 16 month ago vouchers for Virgin balloon flight! After a couple of cancellations the day finally arrived that we were able to step into that rather large basket and trust one man and an awful lot of material and a few ropes to keep us afloat 2,000 feet in the sky!!!
The evening was warm and very calm all 16 passengers got to work together in laying out the balloon and preparing it for flight. We all listened intently to the pilots instructions especially what the landing position looked like. He warned us that the basket may tip over on landing and may drag all of us across the ground and if this occurred we had to hold on to the handles at all times!! Was I scared? Not a bit I was so up for the adventure bring it on!!
For those people who like detail the balloon first had to be filled with cold air by two gigantic fans then when it was inflated the pilot turned on the gas burners when this happened we had to speedily jump into the basket.
Before we set off the pilot threw off a gas bottle and reconnected a tube to another bottle at this I was a little concerned thinking does he have enough bottles to keep us up there!!
We climbed ever so slowly the burners were very hot and noisy we waved at small people and even smaller children as we floated by!
We rose to 2,000ft and just stopped, the air was so still it felt like we were no longer moving and all 16 passengers stopped talking it was so peaceful. Looking down we had such a clear view of people's homes, gardens children playing in parks, cars speeding down roads.
It got me thinking of how God must look down on us and see our busyness and how he must want to shout SLOW DOWN be at peace! It was easy being at peace up in the clouds we had nothing else to do but enjoy the view and enjoy the moment.
I want to experience peace even in the midst of business I guess its reminding myself to look at things from the creators perspective and not let my mind be so overwhelmed with the worlds view of things.
The landing was perfect we just slowly descended and hovered about a foot away from the ground and just stopped amazing.
Thankful for family who sent us up Thankful for the Pilot who brought us back down and Thankful for my Creator God for the amazing views!
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