Would You Rather Game

With balloons on our minds, I decided to look into taking a ride in a hot air balloon for a future date. Sure, I might vomit, or simply recede into the basket like a turtle drawing his head back into his shell. In other words, my fear of heights would be seriously tested.

At the same time, being scared made me want to do it more. It would surely be beautiful. If I could look. And the hubby would be there, so I would feel the safest I could in such a situation.

I figured it would be expensive, like good seats at the theater or ballpark. I did not, however, expect it to be so unreasonable that normal people cannot ever, ever, ever go up in a hot air balloon. I found 4 local hot air balloon businesses. They were similar in price and in experience. About an hour up in the air, and my husband and I would be joined with 6-8 other paying customers. If we wanted to do it solely as a couple... Well, that is more expensive than our entire wedding and honeymoon was.

So here is the game my hubby and I got to play... It's called "Would You Rather" and is just super fun.

Would you rather have a date in a hot air balloon (with 6 other people) or buy groceries for 3 months?

Would you rather have the hot air balloon date or get new brakes for the car?

Balloon or get our eyes checked AND get new glasses with the expensive frames and lenses for both of us?

Balloon or make 2 car payments?

Get all 9 of our rescued kitties vetted for a year?

Get 102 Vintage Stars Wars Action Figures on sale?

Get Happy-Happy Wife Boots that would be too expensive to wear outdoors?

Get a stainless steel fridge? A giant washer and dryer? A riding lawn mower?

The only thing my husband would answer "balloon" to would be the following:

Would you rather go up in a hot air balloon or buy 2 purebred Weimaraner puppies?

Yeah. No way are we taking a hot air balloon ride. I get that they need to make money on the rides but you'd think it would be just a tad more... Plausible. I will not be spending over 300 bucks a person to throw up in the skies above St. Louis. Besides, I probably wouldn't be able to see anything through my tears, which I would be crying out of pure frustration at how stupid we were paying that much to go up in the first place.