Balloon, Daddy, Balloon!

I worked until 6:30 PM thursday evening to make up partially for a half day off I took last week.
Even at that late hour it was still light out when I arrived back at the car, and the temperature for biking and walking is just great.  As it warms up for spring and summer we'll be remembering March with fondness.  The wind was much worse in February but March isn't over yet of course.
I received my much-anticipated "sport cam" in the mail at work yesterday, but I don't quite have the hang of it yet.  It has a sound or voice-activated camera function that I THOUGHT would keep the camera running last night while riding, but it never did.  I'll post a picture of the already-wonky helmet with the little cam on it and hopefully have some video from it to post soon.
BG before ride home:  181 -  BG after getting back to car: unk
Evening stats from the GPS:    Total Distance Miles:  7.43
Overall average speed     Moving Avg      Max Speed
09.8  Mph                       11.3 mph            21.0 mph
Total Trip time               Moving Time    Stopped Time
  45:31mins                     39:23 mins            06:08 mins 

Many moons ago, long ago and far away in Las Cruces, we were eating breakfast one morning while living in Helen Carbine's wonderful old house, when suddenly Jake, our youngest at that time (maybe 4 years old), pointed at the window and cried repeatedly "Balloons, Daddy, Balloons!!!"  At first not understanding what the Cat-Hair he could be talking about, at first seeing nothing out the window, we finally went outside and saw our first hot-air balloons, a couple hundred feet above us, floating slowly along and so close we could hear them and call out to them in reply.  There must have been 6 or 7 of them.  They were involved in some kind of balloon race from Albuquerque to El Paso or somewhere.  We've all seen probably a few THOUSAND hot air balloons since then, but they're still quite spectacular.  This even though there are few days in Albuquerque when at least 2 or 3 aren't floating in the air, usually out over the West Side.  Today as I cycled through the last leg of my commute via the Balloon Fiesta Parkway bicycle path, there in front of me was this:

It had a banner on the side saying something about "Albuquerque Green", and since it's Saint Patrick's Day, it must have some connection.  During Balloon Fiesta in October there are hundreds of colorful balloons sailing over our heads every morning, but this is the first up-close encounter I've experienced this year.
Starting BG:  140      Post-Ride BG:  98
Morning Stats from the GPS:                       Total Miles:  7.43
Overall average speed      Moving Avg         Max Speed
11.5  Mph                          12.0 mph             21.2 mph
Total Trip time                   Moving Time       Stopped Time
38:38 mins                          37:08 mins            01:30 mins