The seventh annual Great Aardvark Embark Hot Air Balloon Launch was held at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Over a dozen teams of professional balloon pilots and their crews assembled at dawn on an athletic field at the college to lay out and inflate their hot air balloons prior to rising into the heavens and soaring away with passengers in their gondolas. The morning was cool, and the air was very still, so the balloonists had no trouble inflating their craft.