I think that balloon is gonna land here... (runs and gets camera)

Jody had come home a bit early from her rotation at the hospital and met Ethan and I in the dining room.  She said "Did you guys see what is out side?"  We were both intrigued and said "no" with a smile of excitement.  We went outside to the field behind our house and saw a brightly-colored hot air balloon not that far in the distance.  I watched it grow bigger and bigger quite quickly.  Jody looked at me and asked if I thought it was going to land here.  I said "yep" and began running into our house to grab the camera.

The landing of the hot air balloon in Sachem field was a public event is the oldest sense of that word.  Many people just walked out of their yards and playgrounds and made an impromptu procession to the touchdown site.

As an added bit of fun, the balloon touched down RIGHT in the middle of the end of a middle school soccer practice, so one of the people who were helping tear down the balloon spent the entire time making sure middle school soccer cleats did not trample holes in the some-odd thousand dollar balloon fabric.

Also, if you will notice, Ethan was so excited about the event that he didn't even have time to get some underwear or pants on.  It was freezing, but hey, there was a BALLOON landing in our back yard.