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Brianna Avalos and her husband were riding in the balloon to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. She said the pilot informed passengers that he needed to make an emergency landing because of low fuel and a shift in winds. The balloon landed in a Southern California backyard — a balloon with 13 people aboard. The enormous hot air balloon, with a pilot and passengers in the basket, descended perfectly Saturday on a small plot of grass at a home in Temecula, CA. Hunter Perrin said he had no idea that he had visitors until a neighbor alerted him. “I was watching TV and my wife was doing yoga,” Perrin told The Associated Press. “There was a man standing in front of my door saying, ‘They just landed.’ What? I was very confused.”But there they were, a group of anxious people suddenly relieved to be on solid ground. Perrin’s grassy backyard patch is only about 10 feet wide.
Hunter said in an interview with the FOX 5 San Diego Morning team that he and his wife were home when he received a notification on his phone that a camera in their backyard had detected movement. Then, the doorbell started ringing over and over. “I go and answer the door, and there’s this guy going, ‘they just landed in your backyard!’” said Hunter. The Perrins sprinted to the glass door leading to their backyard to try to make sense of the bizarre encounter. “There’s just 13 people in a basket waving at us, wishing us ‘Good Morning,’” Hunter said while laughing. “It was unbelievable, like something out of a Disney fairy tale,” Jenna Perrin said. “The balloon didn’t hit our house or our trees. It was kissing the fence.” Jenna said that the whole outlandish scenario reminded her of something out of the Disney Pixar film “Up.” “It just looked like it was going to take the house up with it.”
The hot air balloon, which is operated by the company Magical Adventure, was forced to make an emergency landing because of low fuel and a shift in winds, according to passenger Brianna Avalos. “He was an amazing pilot,” Avalos said. Denni Barrett, the owner of Magical Adventure, which provides the balloon rides, declined to identify the pilot but said he had “exercised great judgment” and “done the right thing.” The blue balloon with gold stars and a crescent moon image was a spectacle as it came to rest in the backyard, towering over Perrin’s home. The pilot disembarked the passengers, returned aloft and then landed the balloon nearby in the street, where it was dismantled. Barrett said, “Most of our landings are in wine country,” referring to vineyards in California’s Riverside County. Usually they’re bigger backyards.”
Hot air balloons
I called in a psychic radio show while I was taking a ride in a hot air balloon.
Psychic: “Go ahead caller, you’re on the air.”
Me: “Amazing, how did you know?”
What’s the difference between a politician and a flying pig.
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I have only ever seen hot air balloons in the morning.
I guess they’re all early risers
A chap is flying in a hot air balloon but is lost. He sees paddy below and shouts, “Hey, do you know where I am?”
Paddy says, “You can’t fool me, you’re in that box.”
April 24th Birthdays
1982 – Kelly Clarkson, 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, 1977 – Jessica Chastain, 1998 – Autuma Wendel,
1993 – Joe Kerry, 1995 – Jordan Fisher , 1976 – Peyton Manning, 1977 – Phil Robertson