and thank you for your kind feedback... would love it if you dipped into your memory banks and wrote up the balloon flight... there is a lot of that activity in central Jersey... my sister often walks outside in summer to quite a show...
One of the women I work with (who now wants to try the glider flight) went up in a balloon... said she liked it but found the sound of the heater firing up a bit disconcerting...
Speaking of which... I didn't mind the release... compared to the jolts we were getting during the climb... it was anticlimactic... everything smoothed out once we were on our own... plus which I had gotten a couple of good preparatory warnings.