14th Balloon Meeting at Bad Griesbach

For a long time already, our balloons are an inherent part of the Balloon Meeting at Bad Griesbach - and so, Matthias and Werner opened the event on Thursday afternoon on the square between the hotels of Bad Griesbach traditionally with Penguin and Cat.

Another tradition at Bad Griesbach is the go-kart race, mostly carried out on Saturday afternoon - here you can see Bastian (right) and Matthias (left) having a really hard fight.

It was also them both who achieved the best lap times that day - only outmatched by Bastian's father Wolfgang.

In the late afternoon, finally, the big moment had come: Bastian presented our new special shape, the Sheep, in public for the very first time.

With great support of Martin Kaiser from Haßfurt, Basti had designed the first balloon sheep of the world and then sewed it together in months and months.

The news from the completion of the new balloon had already spread to Rosenheim, from where Martin Eutermoser came to join us with his Fox balloon to add another animal to our flying zoo. And the crowd was so enthusiastic!

Together with Fox, Penguin and Cat, the Sheep rised into the sky above Bad Griesbach for the very first time.

The time between evening launch and night glow we used to put up our other balloon envelopes - here our D-MINI together with Martin Eutermoser's blue Elephant.

At the night glow, the Sheep stood between the big balloons and enjoyed the attentiveness of the spectators - especially of the little ones.

After a spectacular fireworks at night, we could fly on Sunday morning with the big balloons - Bastian together with Klaus Weiler from Lorch, Matthias with Dagobert Neumeier from Weilheim.

Thanks for the lift... and see you next year! :-)

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