Suzan!

Just came across these images, which made me instantly happy. Apparently, National Geographic together with a team of engineers, scientists and balloon pilots successfully launched a 16 x 16 foot house with 300 balloons! This happened somewhere near LA, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight, reaching an altitude of 10,000 feet and staying in the air for about an hour. The whole project was inspired by the Pixar animated film "Up" (which I haven't seen) and filming of the event is going to be part of a National Geographic Channel series called "How Hard Can It Be", showing sometime this fall. I just love that people try to do these things, and that they're possible....

xx e.