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| Thanks to Mommy, we got a gift certificate for a hot-air balloon trip. They weren't kidding with the "unforgettable" part | However, they got this part slightly wrong ("ballooning is one of the safest forms of travel") | The plan was to take off from Tegernsee and fly north for about 1 to 1.5 hours |
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| Unloading the basket | | Setting up the balloon |
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| Starting to inflate the balloon | More and more | Getting excited about the trip |
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| We're almost ready | Now we're in the basket | Mommy, give us the camera quickly! |
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| And off we go! | Higher... | ...and higher! |
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| See the 30 or so other balloons in the distance? | Wait a minute...we're going the wrong direction! | We flew east instead |
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| Which led us right over the alps | We reached 2500 meters | There's a ski resort below us |
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| Our last picture before we "descended" after 2.5 hours | We hit the ground in a windy valley, bounced off again, tipped over, crashed on the side, bounced a few more times and then skid 120 meters over the ground |
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| Ouch! Daddy broke his arm in two places | Police and rescue workers were on the scene fast | 3 helicopters arrived |
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| Mommy arrived by car for the shock of her life | I (Aaron) was taken to the hospital in this helicopter. Daddy rode in an ambulance | So this is what one newspaper had to say about the story. Not entirely accurate, but they got the gist of it. |
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| RTL (German TV) interviewed us at the hostpial | ARD (German TV) came to our house. Let us know if you want to see the tape of our segment on ARD! | Daddy's office didn't forget him |
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| Poor Daddy. 8 weeks in a cast. | |
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