And then on the big day, my idea to get exclusive photos by sending up a reporter and a photographer in a giant hot-air balloon blew up big-time.
Huge moon balloon blown away in Fuzhou, E China, as #TyphoonMeranti approaches.
Blow up a balloon: blow up a suitable size which will fit on your child's head, if the bottom was cut off.
Insert this into a deflated red and white polka dot balloon, blow it up, and paste the Minnie Mouse bow on it along with a paper that says 'pop me up'.
On Tuesday, the Webcam showed it surrounded by plants and flowers, with several Mylar balloons blowing in the breeze.
Then we realised that we had some major practical challenges such as balloons blowing away, so we had a series of problems we had to overcome.
The balloons blew over the palace, where a smaller rally of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's supporters listened to the embattled leader deliver a message of his own denouncing his opponents as terrorists, looters and killers.
Finally, to tinkling percussion from Mr. Lang, the women arrayed Mr. Vo in a comic headdress; more and more long, skinny balloons, blown up onstage and affixed to the hat, turned him by the end into an Aztec god.
Dr. Galichia is a pioneer in the use of angioplasties -- sending probes to the heart through an artery in the groin and using balloons blown up intravenously to clear clogged arteries -- and has instructed about 200 fellow cardiologists in the technique.
Although I would suggest seeing the Thanksgiving Day parade balloons blown up the night before (in Central Park), I must warn: be cautious of children and strollers at the ankles!
You can get your balloons blown up at party stores or you can buy an at-home helium kit.
