{"id":650,"date":"2015-06-18T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2015-06-18T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:03:22","slug":"my-first-hot-air-balloon-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"My First Hot Air Balloon Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past weekend, Sae and I went on our first hot air balloon ride. I bought this voucher for us to go as a Valentines Day gift but we never got around to redeeming them\u00c2\u00a0until recently.
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\nThe one thing I never really thought about was how quiet it would be. Hot air balloons rides are really peaceful and you can hear everything you’re seeing. If I was ever up that high up in the sky I was most likely on\u00c2\u00a0a plane.\u00c2\u00a0But on a plane your ears are constantly plugged up and<\/em> the engine is really noisy. So it’s just straight-up nonsense for your ears. I’ve never been skydiving or hang gliding before, but I’d imagine that those experiences are pretty noisy as well. But since the balloon moves\u00c2\u00a0with<\/em> the wind, you could be going 5 mph or 60 mph and in both instances the air would seem still. I mean, if there was a tornado, then forget it, you’ll probably feel that. But you’d never launch on a day with lousy weather anyway…and woe is you if a tornado decides to appear on a perfectly clear day and you’re in a hot air balloon.<\/p>\n

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This is the balloon we were in. We weren’t in it in this photo, though.<\/p>\n