touchdown and boiling !

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The great wide land for me!” 

Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

my cousin, me, my grandpa and my grandma. and of course, my warm (actually hot!) welcome-balloon !