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(Message started by: sandie99 on Apr 26th, 2008, 8:34am)
Title: Balloons in the air!
Post by sandie99 on Apr 26th, 2008, 8:34am
Timo and I just witnessed this nice event in which 30000 nature friendly balloons were released to the air. These balloons were released to honor Finland's Tivoli, a travelling amusement park, which is turning 120 this year. This was the biggest balloon event of its kind back in the whole Scandinavia.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/sandie99/balloons.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/sandie99/balloons2.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/sandie99/balloons3.jpg

Sanna
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Post by Jackie on Apr 26th, 2008, 10:26am
Wow.....that's impressive and beautiful too   :)
Big fun!!!

Much Love,
Jackie
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Post by michael on Apr 26th, 2008, 11:18am
Do you know which way they were blowing? Will we see any in England?

Mike
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Post by Jonny on Apr 26th, 2008, 12:15pm
http://howardstern.com/dtcms/tsimg/15_68943.jpg
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Post by barry_sword on Apr 26th, 2008, 3:36pm
Sanna, very colorful way to celebrate the traveling amusement park.

But please, do not try what the guy in Jonny's pic is doing. I believe this Priest is still missing also.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a76_1208918097
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Post by Rosybabe on Apr 26th, 2008, 6:18pm
Cool pics!!  8)
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Post by Melissa on Apr 26th, 2008, 6:39pm
BALLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS!!!!

I love them! :D
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Post by mummymac on Apr 26th, 2008, 6:51pm
Wow, my grandaughter would die with excitment if she saw all those balloons.

She cannot contain herself with one.
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Post by Kevin_M on Apr 26th, 2008, 8:49pm
That's the most I've ever seen, Sanna.  Nice to be there for those colorful moments.  Fun time to be a bird and fly among them.
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Post by artonio7 on Apr 26th, 2008, 9:04pm
Beautiful Sanna... what a fun and colorful way to celebrate a special occasion. Thanks for sharing.

with warm regards,
Tony
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Post by Callico on Apr 26th, 2008, 10:03pm
Cool!!!

What in the world are "nature friendly" balloons??

Jerry
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Post by Charlie on Apr 26th, 2008, 10:45pm
Looks like fun to me Sanna

Great pictures and that's a lot of effen balloons.

Charlie
Title: Re: Balloons in the air!
Post by sandie99 on Apr 27th, 2008, 4:30am

on 04/26/08 at 11:18:16, michael wrote:
Do you know which way they were blowing? Will we see any in England?

Michael,
the officials said that the balloons can fly hundreds of kilometers to anywhere, but if they will raise too high, they will explode. Apparently, about 9 kilometers high is enough to destroy them. Everything is possible, though... :)

Barry, don't worry, I'm too afraid of hights to even think about  that! Timo and I did joke that if Eetu and Kasper would have seen the balloons, they probably could have tried them as a method of transportation... ;)


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Wow, my grandaughter would die with excitment if she saw all those balloons.

I can imagine! :) There were lots of kids, who were all excited! Naturally, some of them were excited because 100 of those balloons had a gift certificate inside them - the kids tried to find those balloons of course. The kids will get a doll with that certificate.


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What in the world are "nature friendly" balloons??

Jerry, ballons are usually made out of plastic, which doesn't decompose at all, but these nature friendly balloons are simply balloons, which will decompose easily and without harming the nature.

A friend of ours got all excited about the idea and plans to get similar balloons for First of May celebrations, which is The occasion for balloons back in here. :)
I'm not sure if similar nature friendly balloons are already in stock at stores, but if they are, I'm sure that they'll be a big hit this year.

Sanna
Title: Re: Balloons in the air!
Post by sandie99 on Apr 27th, 2008, 4:54am
Bit more info...

Today's papers reported that actually there were 31 000 balloons in the air - they wanted to be sure that a new record will be set in case lots of balloons will be broken early.

And what comes to where balloons can travel:
previously balloons which were sent from Helsinki were later on spotted somewhere in Estonia, Sweden and as far as in France. Naturally Jyväskylä and Helsinki are located on different parts of the country, but who knows where the wind will carry the balloons! :)

And the nature friendly balloons are made from the rubber tree.

Sanna
Title: Re: Balloons in the air!
Post by Melissa on Apr 27th, 2008, 9:19am

on 04/26/08 at 22:03:02, Callico wrote:
Cool!!!

What in the world are "nature friendly" balloons??

Jerry

They're latex balloons.  They break down in the environment the same time as it takes an oak leaf.

Biodegradable. :)
Title: Re: Balloons in the air!
Post by Charlie on Apr 27th, 2008, 7:32pm

on 04/27/08 at 09:19:47, Melissa wrote:
They're latex balloons.  They break down in the environment the same time as it takes an oak leaf.

Biodegradable. :)


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Charlie


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