From: JUDYBRADT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:36:22 EST
Subject: Re: Float
To: Skistz@aol.com, tmkelly@excelonline.com, balloondeco@fooledya.com

Hi Jim and Pat:

I have tried for several days to compose this response to your parade float 
so I wouldn't give off the wrong impression  -- I hope it is read in the 
right light.

Each year I enter a float in our local uptown Holiday Parade.  It is never as 
elaborate and exciting as the ones you create, however they create excitement 
and show balloons in a new and fun light!  I think you two are very, very 
talented and have a great deal of resources within you and your organization 
that the average event decorator does not.  That does not mean they shouldn't 
try.  I am sure no balloon artist wants to exhibit work that would be a 
disgrace to him/herself /balloon artist community.  I think it would be 
wonderful if everyone who wants to build a float could build it on a custom 
made golf cart with a team of welders, designers, builders, etc, but 
unfortunately, that doesn't happen.  I think we should encourage fellow 
artists to give it a try, even if it is on the back of a flatbed truck!  One 
year we had confetti that blew out of the top of a Christmas tree with large 
presents which opened over and over again releasing balloons each time. The 
creativity is out there -- I say GO FOR IT!!!

Judy Bradt, CBA
A Special Event
Pico Rivera, CA