Manu-Forti and I have been collaborating quite a bit in the last few months. We've been working with people around the world to create some really different-sounding tracks and one of them is finally on iTunes! We're now in the mood to create a sweet little video clip and would love to hear from anyone that has the desire to help us out. :) 

Want more info? PM me! 

In personal news; check out this photo... 

It's a very lovey-dovey story, so I'll spare you the details here. But if you want to know the story behind it, head to my BLOG POST

I will, however, tell you a story about Hot Air Ballooning.

Patrick and I went on a 1 hour hot air balloon ride over the Gold Coast, with a champagne breakfast to follow and a little trip to the casino after that. On the way back to Brisbane, we stopped by Movie World and rode all the roller coasters, then ate the BEST MEAT PIE and shared the BEST APPLE PIE at Yatala Pie. But I digress. 

The balloon ride was meant to be a really dosile experience. I convinced both his and my parents to not stress because "Ballooning is super, super calm." Yes, they were all stressing.

But that's no fun. *wink 

So before we got into the big floating basket, I said a little wish under my breath and hopped on in! We floated for about 45 minutes before things started to get really interesting. Sure, the landscape was beautiful, we caught the sun rising behind the Gold Coast City skyline, it really was an amazing sight to see. But you know that little part of you that wants a zombie appocolypse to happen? That part of me was out and about on this particular morning and long story short, the ballooning version of tripping on a small object occurred...

We hit 2 trees, almost crashed into a country club chimney and had to make an executive decision to land on a prestine golf course (big no no in the world of landing as those places get royally upset if you mess up their turf) or risk hitting power lines if we didn't clear them before needing to go to 3000ft to be able to safely make it to a different landing space...

It was the best experience ever! At one point we were so close to the cars along the highway (as the wind happened to bring us there and then stop blowing) that the cars were slowing down, beeping, people were stopping and taking out their phones to video/photograph our giant red, white and blue balloon... 

I learned a lot about ballooning; you can only really steer it up and down. The different directional winds on the different levels in the sky are what dictate where exactly you are going. So the driver has some neat technology around him to let him know exactly how high we want to be to catch whatever direction-wind we want... let me just put this out there: my terminology isn't right. Direction-wind? What is that? But hopefully you can piece this all together to figure out what is it that I'm trying to explain. Ballooning is cool.

I have it all on film.

The driver (Murry) of this crazy contraption was really great! He's actually going to be attempting to break a ballooning world record at the end of this year. So I'll be tuning into that TV show. Supposedly he's getting his sky diving license because if everything goes wrong, he'll need to know how to work a parachute and abandon ship! 

But I'll leave the story here. Enjoy your day! Oh, and go spend $1 to buy the newest song on iTunes by Manu-Forti and me.