Ballumanaria

Last night we headed to Ballumanaria at Eden Park. Its the kick off of the holiday season. There are food vendors, clowns, balloon makers, face painting, characters, etc. The main attraction is they line up 10-12 hot air balloons right along mirror lake and at dark, illuminate them.

Balloons first going up

I have been wanting to check out this event and while I am glad we went, felt like we had to high of expectations and left slightly disappointed. Ella left extremely disappointed. There were thousands of people there and I felt the event was way under prepared. There were only two food vendors with lines of 30 or more people. There were only two balloon makers and one face painter with literally 60 or more people in a line that was not moving. Poor Ella was so looking forward to balloon making and face painting and left with neither