April 18th, 2010
After a month of planning with our passenger Steven we finally got to the special day. We were schedule for the evening before, but the winds just didn’t work out. We meet Steven and his then girlfriend Gina at Hamilton Town Center at 6:15am. She was very surprised about the balloon ride. We made our way to Lapel High School to launch the balloon.

Today was going to be a very special day. The plan was to practice dropping baggies on an X to get ready for this year’s upcoming rallies. Well that is the story we told Gina. We had a perfect launch and went to 2000 feet. We began conversing with the crew (BOB & BRIAN) to let them know where they should place the X. We aborted the first location and went for selection #2 in a neighborhood. The crew spread out the rectangle shaped X that measures 4’ x 30’. How can an X be rectangle? Well it was actually a banner that read “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” When Gina first saw the banner she read it as “WILL YOU MAKE ME”, but she quickly realized what it said and turned to Steven. Of course I got out of their way the best I could giving them some private time after that.

After some tears a YES and a few pictures we continued our 1:25 minute flight landing at MT Comfort Airport for a great landing.

Check out the little video we created.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gK06zLoWkg

Congradulations to the newly engaged couple!

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