On July 4th, plussers around the world celebrated +Halfdan Reschat's birthday. On this side of the pond, +Keith Cramer, +Kristi Fahlsing, daughter Cramer, and I launched a dozen or so Chinese lanterns. Each lantern carried with it a picture of Halfdan and +Fluffy McSharkah Khan along with birthday wishes and an e-mail address for anyone finding a lantern to notify us.
Attached to this post are two videos of our second lantern launch from our family 4th of July get together.
E-mail reply from Jodi:
HI! 🙂 My name is Jodi S., I was on my usual saturday morning walk back to the bar to get my car this morning and found 2 lanterns…. i picked them up because i dont like litter and found your picture with an email saying to let you know where they landed. Well both lanterns ended up in a field in the north part of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
E-mail reply from Brenda:
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I found the Chinese lantern launched for Halfdan's birthday. It was found today in my backyard in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Best of luck with everything. What a fun thing to do.
Happy Birthday, Halfdan!!
Reply from Pam who tracked down and posted to Halfdan on Facebook:
Found your balloon in Huntertown, IN. Pretty cool your friends did that for your birthday!! Happy Birthday from the James's.
Link to Halfdan's post about this: http://goo.gl/LaJ2IU
Scott's original post: http://goo.gl/TIqtE
Scott's video of the 1st launch: http://goo.gl/cUGqO6
Kristi's video of the 1st launch: http://goo.gl/8mjfa
Keith's video of the 1st launch: http://goo.gl/rtKza
Keith's second post: http://goo.gl/uMHeP
#HappyBirthdayOverlord #HappyBirthdayHalfdan
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That's awesome that you got a response from people, I'll give the videos a watch later when I'm awake enough for noise ;P
How far away are those places from where you launched the lanterns?
Weeeirrrdd… is that a gif or a video? I see the little "play" icon in the centre, but the image is animated… O.o'
Very nice! +Scott Cramer
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They made it (at most) a few miles from where we launched. We let them loose from the north side of town.
I honestly expected that you guys would one reply at most. It is very cool that people took the time to write a message.
You guys did well.
Sorry it took so long to post the follow up! 🙂
Jodi`s was my favorite reply! Funny.
Yup! Does not drink and drive and picks up litter! 😉
That's super. I was thinking last week of asking if you ever got any replies. 😀
I think Jodi's message was sort of hinting that we should be littering…