Sicky Boy

Erk Isaac is coughing so hard he is vomiting... lovely start to a morning really! I am keeping him home today so that means working or attempting to work from home. He is high maintenance when he is sick, actually he is high maintenance all the time so it is hard to get anything done. He has been on the smoke machine (Nebuliser) this morning and is now wrapped in a blanket watching TV.

I found this pic on the camera yesterday isn't he cute?

I made it my wallpaper at work and someone asked me if he was my favorite kid, ummm no. That would be Blair... LOL just kidding Marni and Laura!

Up Up and Away!

Well once again I am back... did you miss me? Of course you did... awww so sweet!
I finally downloaded the ballooning photos and here they are! The pics from my camera are always HUGE so I have just resized these ones so far.
We had to leave home at 3.30 am (yes I did say AM!) to drive to the site... it was chilly but very still and calm. We helped unpack the balloon and basket from the truck and then watched as they started the gas burners








It was awesome when they fired up the gas burner, so noisy! At this stage I was so excited I could hardly stand it, as I looked around I counted 16 people and as far as I knew the basket only held 10. I whispered to my friend Dallas that we should get ready to push people out of the way if necessary to make sure we got a place! She laughed but I was serious!

Isn't it beautiful? We were worried we would get a boring balloon so it was a relief to have such a gorgeous one!

Here is my friend just before we got in the basket, she wore red and I wore orange so we would stand out from the ground!

The ground crew just after we took off, there was no real sensation of flying or even moving really, it was quite amazing. Very peaceful and beautiful, just a gentle breeze blowing and complete silence when the gas burner wasn't blasting! That thing was LOUD!

Looking up into the balloon ... sigh so gorgeous.

Here I am trying to take a pic of myself and managing to look like a terrorist! We had to wear a hat or hood because the heat from the burner was uncomfortable.

The view of the countrysidewe went over, mostly farms and just the one small town.
The cows came out to welcome us back to the ground

YAY! we did it!