Balloon Ride

I just realized I hadn't posted the news on the balloon ride we all took last month. Better late than never.

Back on August 9th, a Saturday evening, the four of us drove up to Lebanon for a sunset balloon ride that took us over lovely Lebanon, OH. I mentioned in an earlier post about our false starts the previous week, but this time the weather cooperated.

It was a fun ride. Pam and I had done a balloon ride before out in Arizona, but it was a brand new experience for the boys. They think it's pretty cool that less than .1% of the population has been on a hot air balloon ride.

So thanks to all my family members that pitched on this gift for my birthday. It was a very memorable gift.

Picture album of all the action is below.

We Have Power

The OH version of Hurricane Ike is slowly fading from our lives after the hurricane force winds it brought us on Sunday.

We got our power back in the middle of the night (around 2am), after it being off since Sunday at 2pm. So it's nice to be back online with everything after 36 hours in the dark, although missing the Bengals game on Sunday was probably a blessing in disguise.

We lost about 60% of the stuff in refrigerators. We kept some stuff cold using coolers and ice. Now we just have to get the roof patched up and we'll be back to normal. We lost about 20% of the shingles off our roof in the wind. Thankfully there's been hardly any rain since then. We're due for a visit from a local roofing company today or tomorrow.