WOW time flies when you are having fun! Seems like only two days ago since we arrived back from the World Balloon Convention and I’ll put it down to all the new ideas, designs and creative concepts that we have been busy implementing and trying out as our excuse for not posting, but now it’s time for a catch up. So here is 2 and a half weeks:-
Gala Awards night :- While classes continued during the day a massive effort was going on downstairs in the ballroom to transform the room into truly fitting space to hold the World Balloon Convention Gala awards evening. Large white balloons surrounded by silver and black crescent moons, tapers and small latex balloons made fora stunning chandelier type lighting.
Combine the omnipresencent chandeliers with the large walls that suddenly appeared throughout the venue made from 90cm balloons and large star points and the wild centrepieces, when the lights went down low and the spotlights hit the balloons one word – WOW!
There was simply so much going on!
The time difference between Australia and Dallas made it easier to network well into the early hours of Sunday and it was noted by many the Australians were the last to leave!
But as the old saying goes what goes up must come down and what had been a balloon convention for the last week turned into a public gallery with ‘The Festival of Balloons’. With local print, radio and television media advertising literally thousands of men, women and children came throughout the day and walked through admiring the competition pieces, work completed in classes and more often than not staying and enjoying some light entertainment with the entertainers who attended WBC2012 conducting shows throughout the day. Check out the crowds!! I know some buskers who would love one tenth of the crowd these guys pulled!
While the entertainers wowed the crowds out front many hands were out the back inflating hundreds of foil, Qualatex bubbles, and latex balloons that could be purchased at the festival and there were very few kids who left the festival without a helium balloon or a twisted creature wrapped around their arm, or as a hat.
Come mid afternoon the festival concluded and as thousands and thousands of balloons started to be burst it was time for these Australians to make their way to the airport. Some 15hours after the flight left Dallas it was a warm very early Brisbane morning that the majority of the Australian contingent separated and caught our domestic flights scattering throughout Australia once again.
A special thanks to literally everyone involved in bringing WBC2012 to life.
