Monday Morning you sure look fine

It's much earlier than I typically like to get up on a Monday morning, but Clark left his #2 alarm on when he left for the gym at 5:30, so I got to scramble to turn off HIS alarm at 7. Initially, this didn't make me very happy, as you can imagine, especially since I was having a particularly hard time dozing off for another hour. Then, I start to hear this funny noise. It seems a little cloudy, could it be thunder? Nooo, don't think so. A car engine? Not quite. What it really sounds like is a hot air balloon, but one would have to be practically in my front yard to hear it fire like that. I peek out the window in our bedroom that faces the Balloon Fiesta Park, and don't see anything. Not surprising, since it is pretty cloudy, and I didn't think they went up in inclement weather. Then, I hear the noise again. Not front yard, back yard. I open up the sliding glass door that leads to the little balcony off the master bedroom, and there is a huge, orange hot air balloon floating fairly low, and incredibly close to our neighborhood. Wow. That's pretty cool. I can actually see the flames firing. So, I stand out on my little balcony and watch it for a few minutes, breathing in the cool morning air. Now, as I look out the window again, I can see 5 little hot air balloon friends way out to the west, and one more popping up from the Fiesta Park. Sometimes it's very cool to be up early in Albuquerque.