I am very sad to hear about precious Duffy. I know what it is like to loose a precious member of the family. I am keeping my canine brother, Rosko for the weekend. He is a black standard poodle. My female Jack Russell, Trinity, keeps him in check. She will stay with my parents when DH and I head to WDW in Dec. My MIL has a sweet Dachshund named Charley Girl. She is 13 and I can't wait until we get to keep her more. Currently she goes to the vet for boarding, but MIL is now starting to let me pick her up a day or so early to stay with us...soon she will get to stay with us all the time while MIL is out of town...she is sooooo cute and Trinity does OK with her most of the time. OK, back to your trip report!
Loving the food pics and hearing about your adventure. Jammin Jungle is a neat parade and one of my fav sound bites on my parade CD. MIL will go with us in Dec and she has yet to see it...maybe this trip? I have seen your signiture many times and DH hope to be OL groupies, too. This will be our first year with one. Do your OL's have names? Just curious.
Did the balloon ride with DH (46, 5'8", 260#), MIL (67, 5'5", 150#) and BIL (42, 6'1", 280#)..then me (41, 5'4", 220#)....did OK until the driver talked about everyone walking slowly around the cage and me worried about us standing togther and tipping the dang thing over.
..which is why our weights are listed. I kept telling DH and BIL to stay in their assigned spots so the cage would not move. I about had a heart attack when DH and BIL stood together. 
I am generally not afraid of heights but that one skinny tether and our Pooh shapes did not make me comfortable AT ALL !! I am sure the other riders were thinking the same thing. Did it once, won't have to do it again. 
