It's been brought to my attention that I haven't said anything about the balloon flight I mentioned a few entries ago. Well, we got up at 4 and were driven out to the balloon takeoff site, but during the drive the wind really picked up and we weren't able to fly as it was twice as strong as it should be so was unsafe. We went back to the hotel and had an extra two hours sleep, but it was still really disappointing. However, Michelle managed to book us in again for yesterday morning so we did get to go in the end! The only problem with this was that on Friday night we all went out to celebrate the end of this section of the tour. About half the group weren't carrying on to the
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