9th Balloon Festival at the Europa-Park

After a two year's pause, the popular Balloon Festival at the Europa-Park took again place in 2006. And there is something this meeting just can't do without: model balloons. Spectacular model balloons. Beautiful model balloons. With friendly and reliable pilots. ;-)

Enough of showing off! *gg*

Just arrived and already on the roller coaster - and the joy at the invitation to Germany's greatest amusement park is written in our faces: Bastian Schwarz, Matthias Schlegel and Alexander Schmiauke in the "Poseidon" water ride.

At the evening starts of the big balloons, our models were of great interest to the public. Also there was the Erdgas model balloon with Istvan Csernik and his wife Michaela from Freiburg.

On Saturday morning, Werner was lucky enough to be invited for a flight with one of the balloon teams. In the morning haze, you can see the roller coasters of the park, on which - guess! - Basti, Xander and Matthias were having great fun right then.

A kiss for the Panda? In the afternoon, we took our model balloons to the park, right in front of the Milka pyramid in the southern part of the area.

"If you walk through the trick fountains, we'll give you chocolate!" We just couldn't resist this sentence of the two Milka promotion girls *ggg*

And we almost happened to get away on dry feet, though the lifesize Milka bunny on the right side of the picture tried to prevent that! ;-)

Saturday evening was crowned by a really magnificent model balloon night glow! The courtyard of the new "Hotel Colosseo" definitely has an atmosphere that just can't be topped.

Step out to the right, please: On Sunday morning, we got stuck in the Euro-Mir roller coaster and had to be freed by the staff :-D

An ecstatic audience: Bastian with our D-MINI balloon had lots of curious spectators around him.

Goodbye photo with the Euro-Mouse, the mascot of the park: Four lucky model balloonist are happy about the wonderful event, which marks no doubt one of our absolute highlights in 2006 =)

A heartfelt 'Thank You' for the invitation to Rudi Höfer (organisation balloons) and Claudio Schulthess (organisation Europa-Park)!

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