Disappointed with my wife’s last year birthday party, this year I was thinking of something more memorable.

Don’t get me wrong last year’s party was O.K.,  we sang the birthday song, cut the cake, a barbecue and a swim in the pool. A standard celebration, but nothing to mark it as a memorable event. I was messing around on the computer one day and I ran across a sky lantern festival. It was a very impressive video.

They showed the launching of these khoom fay sky lanterns. It was beautiful and very serene to watch. I decided to check out sites on making a sky lantern. It wasn’t too difficult so I decided to buy a kit so I could make a sky lantern. After learning the  sky lanterns how to. I decided I would buy Chinese sky lanterns. These were the perfect sky lanterns to buy for my wife’s birthday party.

My wife was turning 40, I bought 40 of the sky lanterns and started building them in my work room. By the day of the party, I had them all ready and couldn’t wait for the party to start. I planned a bit differently this year, we had a barbecue, swim party, cut the cake and served coffee. Then I suggested a bonfire in the backyard and everyone liked that idea.

While my wife and the guests sat around the warm fire, me and a friend started bringing out the sky lanterns to the front of the house. After we got them all ready, I told my son to tell my wife to keep her eyes on the house.

My friend and I launched the sky lanterns. It was an awesome sight for me and my friend and I’m sure it was even more beautiful to watch from the backyard to watch these lanterns slowly rise into the air. After we launched the last one’s, I went back to see my wife.

She was in tears in the backyard and said, “It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen”. I was very happy and explained to her that there were forty to mark her very special birthday. She claimed it was the best birthday she ever had. This must have been the best idea for a birthday party I ever had and I would suggest others try these sky lanterns for their next birthday celebration.