Welcome to Unicorn Balloon Company.
Unicorn has been setting the standard in Hot Air Ballooning for over 36 years. Unicorn is no longer the largest balloon company but we are the best and have the most fun!. Your ballooning adventure will include the most experienced flight teams in the west and custom designed balloons and baskets unlike any others in the business. We operate hot air balloon adventures in Phoenix/Scottsdale,and Aspen/Snowmass.

Our focus is on providing a safe fun experience for you and your loved ones. Unicorn looks forward to meeting you and sharing this incredible adventure with you.

All of our flights include a broadcast right here on YOUTUBE

For Rocky Mountain and Sonoran Desert jeep tours, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, mountain biking and more…
visit our sister company ADVENTURES OUT WEST.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Weight restrictions may apply.

CONTACT US

1.800.755.0935 

Unicorns need to advertise their weight restrictions more often. Thank you, Unicorn Balloon Company, for setting the example for us all!

Why Do Girls Love Horses, Unicorns And Dolphins?

Published: February 09, 2011

by The Kitchen Sisters

People have long speculated about why girls love horses, according to Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.

By identifying with these dynamic, strong animals, Orenstein says, girls are expressing their own power.

“They’re all active, they’re all sources of power and motion and transformation,” she says.

Laurel Braitman, an MIT graduate student in the history of science who writes about animals and what we think about them, says girls’ fascination with these animals is more than power — the animals fuel girls’ imaginations.

“Horses and dolphins and unicorns — these are all borderland creatures; gateway animals to other worlds,” she says. “They help us imagine wonderful other ways of being in the world. They let us be cowgirls and oceanographers and mermaids and princesses.”

Unicorns: The Dreamland Of The Horse

Posters of unicorns paper 11-year-old Jennifer Green’s bedroom walls. For her, unicorns are magical. They symbolize dreaming and achieving.

“I know that unless you believe in them, they won’t show themselves to you,” she says. “They’re like a very pure spirit.”

Girls and unicorns have been linked in stories, art and on tapestries since at least the Middle Ages. One of the iconic myths about girls and unicorns has to do with the unicorn hunt, writes Nina Shen Rastogi in her article for Slate magazine, “Why Do Girls Love Unicorns? It’s More Than Just The Horn.” In this myth, she says, the only way that a hunter can lure the unicorn is to bring out a pure young virgin and have her sit in the woods. The unicorn is attracted by the maiden’s innate goodness, purity, beauty and youth.

“I think for many young girls, there’s a fantasy that someday you will be recognized as the secretly beautiful, magical thing that you are,” Rastogi says. “The unicorn will be attracted to something ineffable about you, secret from the rest of the world.”

When you’re small, you’re more imaginative and open to possibilities, says graduate student Braitman.

“That’s maybe the most beautiful part of girlhood,” she says. “Knowing that you can’t actually be all these things — but not being entirely sure.”

This NPR article purports that girls love unicorns for the freedom and possibility the represent. Unicorns encourage them to believe in and achieve their dreams.

This is also why middle-aged women love Richard Simmons.

100% unicorn-free!
100% effective!
50% effeminate!

This Unicorn Chaser beverage is made of natural ingredients blended with rainbows, sunshine, stardust, and unicorn dreams, ready to immediately cleanse the mind’s palette of any and all corrosive elements!

And for those unfamiliar with the term “unicorn chaser”, find its history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing#Unicorn_chaser

JuicyBits: February 09, 2011

173: unicorns and rainbows party part 1: the details

 Finally.

I’ve been holding on to these pictures for a while now.  I just really needed to edit them down a bit.  There were so many good ones that I find it nearly impossible to choose.

Anyway, as the title implies, this year Aurora chose a unicorns and rainbows party.  Actually she chose unicorns and I convinced her to add the rainbows by describing the candy buffet. She had been reading this series of books about a unicorn school and was really into them.  And who can’t get behind that idea?  And for the boys, dragons were permitted to attend.

While the party followed a VERY hectic summer and Theo’s party, it went off with very limited hiccups.  Much less stressed out that at Theo’s.  That’s not to say it wasn’t a boatload of work.  This stuff doesn’t just happen, people.  :)

The day was darned near perfect.  Great weather.  Great Friends.  Great fun.  The kids enjoyed a day full of sugar as well as a craft and even a treasure hunt for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

I asked everyone to come dressed all in one color so we could be our own rainbow…

 You’ll find the sources and inspiration at the bottom of this post, and I’ll be back soon with a summary of the day’s events.

 

 Photography: Evan Foster

Invitations: custom made by me

Dessert Table: inspired by the infamous Amy Atlas

Uncicorn cookies: made by me, inspired by this photo

Yarn balloons: made by Aurora and me, tutorial found here

Paper mobiles: tutorial found here

Cake: made by me, lots of inspiration around the web

Craft: freezer paper stenciling (tutorial found here), used unicorn clip art found here, and a dragon I drew

Face painting: Bella Facia

Favors: a bag filled with a unicorn lollipop, mini unicorn (or dragon) coloring book (available on amazon), set of mini rainbow markers, rainbow and unicorn stickers, wooden unicorn to color and a sewn matchbook notebook (tutorial found here) - plus a whole container full of the candy!

We love everything about this unicorn party - especially its consideration for the rainbow-challenged: 

1.3% of all unicorns are color-blind.

By having a marshmallow-grape-blueberry-cheese-strawberry salad, these oft-forgotten unicorns can literally taste the rainbow!

So when you throw your next unicorn party, tap into the power of synesthesia and keep those color-blind unicorns partying till the unicows come home!

For any number of reasons, you may be confused. Let me try to explain.

1. I like Camels a lot.
2. Camels are difficult to draw.
3. I know how to draw them better than anybody else.
4. I will teach you how to draw them.
5. You will help me share and support innovative projects, enterprises, and entrepreneurs in West Africa.

Know of an awesome project in West Africa that could use some attention? Have some questions for me? Think I’m crazy? Want to send me a picture of a camel you drew? Get in touch with me on the contact page.

Happy camel drawing!!!

Phil Paoletta, artist and camel enthusiast, has released the above ebook to the excitement of all of us who cannot yet draw camels. And, to this unicorn farm’s additional delight, it features an entire chapter on how to draw a Camelcorn*!

So get out your colored pencils or MS Paint pixelated paintbrush, and get to work making your own Cavalry of Camelcorns to march toward adventures in the sparkle-filled dessert!

*Camelcorn = Camel + Unicorn

Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids

© AMNH

On view February 19 – August 14, 2011*

Discover how living and prehistoric animals inspired fantastic beings—some familiar, others unusual. Learn how cultures throughout time have created dragons, unicorns, mermaids and more to explain the natural world, express thoughts and share beliefs. Investigate authentic artifacts, fossils and dramatic models as you explore the stories, traditions and dances that celebrate mythic creatures around the world.

*Dates subject to change without notice.

Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with The Field Museum, Chicago; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau-Ottawa; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney; and Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta.

We applaud the Fernbank Museum of Natural History for taking this brave step in embracing what some may label as unnatural history!

(For more information on unnatural history, visit The Museum of Unnatural History at 826DC).