Fountainhills

Joe and I spent the weekend in Fountainhills. They were having one of their annual Art Festivals. There's a fountain in the middle of this park that shoots up 560 feet. It's actually higher than the Washington Monument and three times as high as Old Faithful in Yellow stone park. It shoots more than 70,000 gallons of reclaimed water per minute.
Anyway..... it was a very pretty day, the weather was great, it was fun walking the art fair and it was nice just sitting and watching the fountain.

The fountain goes off every hour

on the hour for 15 minutes

The resort we stayed at was pretty nice.

There was a casino just a short walk away

but I really wish we would have taken swim

suits. It was almost 80 degrees

Sunday morning we were up at the crack of dawn

and at the festival eary to watch the balloons

go up. The weather was great. Not too cool,

however pretty cloudy.

I guess it's tradition to touch your basket

in the water before going up. This basket

went a little too far in and had trouble

getting out. But it did eventually.

I thought the reflection in
this picture was pretty cool