Happy Birthday Balloons

I can’t remember the last time we blew up balloons. So when our neighbor asked us to come over to celebrate her husband’s 88th birthday we agreed. She mentioned she needed to get some balloons. Then I remembered we had a package of balloons that we got for a medical reason - believe it or not. Only one was used, so there were plenty left over. I told her we would be happy to bring some with us to help with the celebration. So this morning my husband and I made sure we picked out every color and started to blow the balloons up. Whew! But it was even more difficult to tie each one - I even broke a fingernail. I wish I had watched a video on how best to tie the bunch of balloons together. We were having quite a time getting them all hooked together using a long piece of string. Apparently you should make bunches of two or three and then twist them all together. If I had to do it again I would tie a string to each one and then pull all of the strings together. We were glad we could help celebrate someone having an 88th birthday. That - and blowing up and tying the balloons together - is quite an accomplishment!