QotD: Up, Up and Away

Have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon or a helicopter?  Where did you go?

ooooh a QOTD i actually want to answer! (sorry vox, there have been some lame ones of late....maybe it's just me.) a few weeks ago in hawaii, geoff and evan and sara-with-no-h and i went on a helicopter ride over volcanoes. one interesting tid-bit: evan and geoff weigh EXACTLY the same amount! sara and i do not.... at all. (i've got abt 300 lbs on her tiny self)

what is it that's so awesome about volcanoes? you're in this volcano just dying to see lava shoot up in the air but then you realize how destructive that could be and feel bad. our pilot-- we called him "shaky ray"-- was very philosophical about the great paradox of volcanoes creating (land) while they simultaneously destroy so much. sorry, geoff has all the photos. but here's one we did not take.

scary cool (not in temp of course)