Victory

John Petrehn (USA) has won the 19th FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship. It's his second such crown in 3 years, having won in 2006 as well. Nick Donner (USA) finished second after leading the event most of the week. Stefan Zeberli of Switzerland finished third. Among other Americans, Joe Heartsill was 12th and Paul Petrehn was 19th.

The awards start at noon local time. I'll be taking lots of photos, but because we're driving to Budapest afterward I won't be able to post them right away. If our hotel for the next two nights has Internet access I'll get them uploaded this evening. Once in Budapest we need to drop the balloon off at air cargo, then return the vehicles to Ford.

Larry left Debrecen yesterday afternoon for an early flight this morning. He's actually going straight to Las Vegas for a work-related event. Tomorrow Andrew flies out, then Erica, Paul, Bonnie, Bruce and I follow on Tuesday morning.