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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Balloons Are Fun!

Balloons Are Fun!
        by PartyFan

We recently had a graduation party for my sister, who was finally done with nursing school. While waiting for her and other family members to finish up shopping for various party goodies, her 11 year old son and I got into a balloon fight. It was loads of fun for the two of us.

Many decorations had already been put up, some pretty fancy with sparkling letters and wonderful messages, and lots of trimmings like mini mortarboards. Along with all of the jazzed up stuff was a lot of plain ribbon, and some balloons. Only a few balloons had been blow up, and tied in various places, leaving a big bag of them yet to be utilized.

We quickly dove into the bag for more ammunition for our fight, and before we knew it, we had blown all of them up. I hung a few more from strategic locations, but the remainder we bashed off of each other, or played at keeping as many in the air at one time as we could. When we tired of the games, the rest of the balloons wound up in a big pile in the living room.

Great fun for her two boys which turned out to be great fun for all. The pile got more mention than all the fancy decor, and while the boys were awake, the balloons were in constant motion, bouncing off of everything. When the boys went to bed, the adults kept right on playing with them. They got kicked, patted, tossed, zinged at each other, and otherwise stayed in motion. It was great!

So next time you are on decoration detail, don't forget the balloons, and don't just hang them up to look pretty, have a bunch of loose ones. While they might not admit it, even adults think balloons are fun!