The WIMPY KID Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloon Revealed

Recently I headed out west on a secret mission. What was that mission . . . ?

You guessed it. We went to check out The WIMPY KID Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloon. Below are photos of our sneak peek.

This mold reveals all the different sections that need to be sewn together for the balloon to take flight. See all the lines!

Above is the balloon model and the actual balloon in flight.

Inside the balloon head.

Flat

Today the ABRAMS team traveled out to East Rutherford, New Jersey for the first outdoor test of the Wimpy Kid balloon as well as training to become balloon handlers. The ABRAMS team including myself will be balloon handlers during the parade. Thanksgiving day promised to be a long memorable day.

Merle and Kristina held down Greg's foot with all there might.

Michael Jacobs

Greenwillow 2006

Today I saw that over on the Greenwillow Blog they dug up this old photo of Barbara T and I. To be 27 and in a Lilly T-shirt.

Secret South Dakota Mission . . . wait . . . what?

Welcome to South Dakota

Last Thursday I flew out to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I know what you're thinking, South Dakota? ABRAMS flew myself and Jason Wells out there on a top secret mission. But of course its a secret one that I will reveal on Monday. But in the mean time here are a bunch of photos from my South Dakota adventure

South Dakota loves to hunt with adorable dogs



Our Secret mission started here.

Up at dawn, we meet our contacts here for a simple breakfast.

South Dakota's has a variety of game to be hunted

After breakfast we were ready completed our mission. Here is a sneak peak.

Then we hit the road to see what South Dakota had to offer.S. Dakota offered a 75 mph state highway. At times I was going a tad fast ( 100 mph ) as we drove across the state with Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills in our site.

Lots of road side attractions

Uh . . .?

After a 6 hour drive we arrived to an empty Mount Rushmore all lite up.

7:45 AM Mountain Time

Just down the road from Mount Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial

Korczak Ziolkowski

The mountain carving was begun in 1948 by a Polish American sculptor Korczak Ziółkowski, who had worked on Mount Rushmore under Gutzon Borglum in 1924.

This is what Crazy Horse will look like when finished

They have a long way to go.

A wee forest fire.

Mission and sight seeing tour completed. Now its back to NYC to attend a Halloween Party

Goodbye South Dakota