To celebrate we had a party of course. But I wanted it to be extra special - not only was he turning 30, but it was his golden birthday too (30 on the 30th ). Talk about pressure.
So I had this great idea - instead of lighting 30 candles, I'd get 30 sky lanterns (they're like mini hot air balloons) and have all our friends help us send them floating up into the sky.
Great idea, right? WRONG!!
So I bring everyone out on to the front lawn and explain how it works...people start lighting their sky lanterns...
A few of them make it up into the sky ...
But it was too windy and the next thing you know there is a sky lantern stuck in our neighbor's very large, very leafy tree. It was too high up for us to do anything about it so we all just watched in horror until the sky lantern burnt itself out. Luckily nothing happened. Then we just put everything away and went back inside. I was so embarrassed!
The night was certainly memorable - just not quite in the way I had planned.
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