hey absolutely~!

I'll give a run down here tho as I just saw this thread-

Riggs and I are always thinking of inexpensive ways to advertise. So we buy 1000 balloons, some helium and ribbon. I design a small ribbon tag that advertises the station and print these out at work (perks of working at a publish/print company). We go to a park or some parks, assemble these suckers and release them into the jet-stream. float to where they may! we'll have a link set up here at the sight for people who find the landed balloons to sign in with where the found them etc...

I had a concern at first about the notion of littering- I had heard of ducks choking on foreign objects in rivers and lakes etc so I did some research- it wasn't balloon-ends like I had thought- it was them 6 pack rings. go figure....en masse drunken littering boaters.....

When I was a kid in gradeschool, the annual balloon release was a tradition from the playground. From Milwaukee, we got replys from Michigan, Indiana (snicker.....milwaukee too from like 8 blocks away....).

But we think we'll do this!   

 

-- Edited by JD The Jazz Doctor at 22:55, 2006-06-16

That sounds cool! Take pictures!

yea, sorry sparky and alley- we get yer downstream..no balloons for you...although with the way the weather has been the last couple of years, I wouldn't be suprised if that jet-stream does a 180. And, if it does, holy cow I become all like a priest and S$&*!!

I'll keep an eye out! But I am in southern Indiana, so I'm not sure if any will come that far.

  Does the furthest travelled get a prize...? ie the person who finds the one that has travelled the furthest....just a thought.....a little incentive to visit the site and look in...

well I sure like the idea of a prize for the furthest! we'd have to set a deadline of 6 months tho, I bet. Pip! Don't keep your fingers crossed!

Well, it could get tangled up in a jetliner that's just taking off for the UK, and then fall off once it's in your country.

You NEVER know!

I always loved balloon day at school! Sounds cool!

Did I hear you right . . . you're going to release baboons ?

SHERMAN, Conn. - A high-flying hello from strangers in Michigan made its way through storms and across several hundred miles, landing recently near a Connecticut woman's home.

Marcella Lourd, 80, who lives in the western Connecticut town of Sherman, found a cluster of about 17 bright orange balloons last week near her home's tennis court, their helium nearly spent and a business card dangling from their tied-together strings.

When Lourd sent an e-mail to the address on the card, she received surprising news: The balloons, the idea of a 9-year-old girl, had been released one day earlier in the western Michigan city of Grand Rapids.

They apparently made the 630-mile trip to Sherman in about 13 hours despite — or perhaps helped by — the storms that swept eastward into Connecticut during that time.

Brian Buck, 35, had released the balloons, prompted by his daughter Anna's curiosity about how far they'd travel. Buck, a stay-at-home father who works part-time at a store that sells balloons, called it "all just a bit of fun, really."

"We once saw a TV report about a balloon that was released on St. Valentine Day and ended up in France, so my daughter said we should try to do the same thing," he told The News-Times of Danbury. "We have to get rid of the balloons every night anyway because the helium inside can affect the store's security detection system."

Still inflated, the balloons have found a welcoming home with Lourd.

"They still have air in them so I think I'll just keep them," she said. "They'll make a nice little ornament."

We used to do this in grade school every year, wouldn't you know it that mine was always the one to float right into a line or a tree.