Last Saturday, we took our son to go to the Annual Balloons and Tunes Festival at Beulah Park in Grove City. Grove City is located in the south side of Columbus, about 40 minutes away from our house. This would be the first time we went there and I was pretty excited to go. I really wanted to ride a tethered hot air balloon. Yes, I imagined I would be scared to death flying across town with a hot air balloon. So I settled with a tethered balloon. I didn’t think my son would want to ride it considering he’s pretty timid. But who knows?
We arrived there at dusk, a little late than what we planned since we got stuck chatting with our neighbor. I was so worried that we didn’t get a chance to enjoy the festival. We still had plenty of time to enjoy the festival, checking out some balloons, taking pictures, and enjoy the kids activities. They had lots of inflatables, food, live music. My son was extremely excited looking at those colorful balloons. However as we got closer to the balloon, he got really scared by the torch. I knew that was going to happen. We couldn’t ride the balloon anyway since it was getting too dark and they wouldn’t allow us. The weather was so perfect, which made us pretty happy about the fact that we got there late.
Once it got dark, everybody gathered around the field to see the balloons being lighted up. I didn’t realize it was extremely hard to make all 20 balloons to be lighted up at the same time. In fact, there were always a few that didn’t lighted up, or got lighted after other balloons were out.
Grove City holds this event every year and I highly recommend it. Admission is free and you only pay $5 parking. For more information, visit http://www.grovecityohio.gov/.
Tags: balloon festival, Columbus Family Event, family event, kids event
