Last week I had the great fortune to do this:
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| “Balloon with a View” This balloon launched with ours. |
*It costs money. Fortunately, for me, this particular trip was a gift. Thanks Dad.
*Fear of baskets is a no-go. If you fear floating around in a human-sized Easter basket, this isn’t for you.
*It’s not like Pixar’s movie “Up.” Wasn’t “Up” a sad movie? I didn’t cry once while on this ride.
*It’s hard to catch a football from a balloon. A few kids tossed a football up to us (while flying much lower, of course, than the pic above) and we missed. Twice. Leaning out of a basket to catch a football = not a good idea.
*People love balloons. It was fun to see all the people waving, cars crashing from watching us and not the road, and the dogs freaking out.
*Amish people love balloons too. Here’s how some arrived in their Amish “car” to scope out our balloon landing.
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| “Amish Auto” |
Time to check something off your bucket list?
wait, was that really your balloon that landed right next to my house? that kind of looks like the next street over!
Yeah. I really think it was our balloon.
Took off in Bird-in-Hand and landed in Intercourse. A bunch of Zook’s and Stoltzfus’s came out of the woodwork to help us land.
too funny. we live in intercourse, so yeah, that was our neighborhood you landed in. small world!