I just took these photos about 10 minutes ago. The balloon festival is on in the Wairarapa, it started early this morning with balloons from all over NZ, North America, Australia, you name it. It is very calm weather wise in the Wairarapa, unlike Wellington which is always windy so its ideal for the festival. We will have to see though, its cooled down considerably here and we had some wild weather the last day or so. I have the heat on in my kitchen, I brought my gas heater in from the garage to warm the front of the house.