Great Falls Balloon Festival staff member Alan Collins has some fun with his granddaughter, Delilah Doyle, on Thursday night at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston where the balloon festival is scheduled to lift off Friday morning, weather permitting. The skeletons will be part of the decorations that her mother, Danielle, and others will be setting up around the information booth, background. The theme for this year’s 29th festival is “Boo-Loon Bash.” Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Great Falls Balloon Festival ballooning director Paul Englehart looks at the weather forecast for the morning launch as he waits for pilots to show up for the pilot’s dinner Thursday night at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston where the balloon festival is scheduled to lift off Friday morning, weather permitting. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Balloon pilot Bruce Byberg, left, sneaks up on fellow pilot Beth Hamilton as she talks to other pilots and staff members of the Great Falls Balloon Festival on Thursday night at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston. The balloon festival is scheduled to lift off from there Friday morning, weather permitting. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Great Falls Balloon Festival volunteer Albert County hangs a string of lights in one of the tents Thursday night at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston where the balloon festival is scheduled to lift off Friday morning, weather permitting. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal