Same here. But you missed the boat!!
Dry cleaner bags are for rookies! Thin painters drop cloths are where it is at!
Our largest was 4 of them ironed together (not too hot to melt the drop cloth to the iron). Then gathered together to an aluminum wire ring. Then a gondola of sterno.
It inflates to the size of a van and looks like a flying amoeba.
It takes some patience and practice to get it to fly. But we have tracked them more than 15 miles!
I’m mid 60s but my high school friends and I still buy a case of beer and go flying UFOs a couple times a year!!
Chinese or Japanese tradition on Hawaii was little paper bolloons wiha can to let flost away once a year.
Cool to watch them in the dark.
Fire dept put pressure on to outlaw the event