May 22nd would have been Jeremy's grandma's 78th birthday. We had our own little celebration in our backyard. We had a campfire....Brendan's first. He toasted marshmallows and played in the dark.
A friend of mine told me about these wish lanterns that they set off for her brother-in-law's birthday a few months ago. I ordered some and we did the same. The lanterns are basically made of tissue paper that we wrote little messages on. The entire thing is bio-degradable. Underneath there is a flint that you light. After it is lit it fills with air like a hot air balloon. You hold on to it and as it fills it gets lighter and lighter and eventually floats away. The entire thing burns up before it comes back down.
We did the first one from out back yard. It was supposed to go straight up in the air but didn't. It went higher and higher but was heading right for the trees. I thought for sure we were going to start a forest fire. Just before it got to the trees it lifted up and went over them.
We were so amused by it that we did a second one. I videotaped most of it as Jeremy and his sister manned the lantern. This is what it looks like as it takes off.
A good time was had by all and no forests were burned down. Brendan still occasionally asks for us to light another balloon to send into the sky.
Happy belated Birthday Doris!
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