My Basket

Chad had a few water pistols in the balloon, a huge heap of blankets, some decent whiskey, sake, and port, some ginger ale, no tools whatsoever, thirty feet of rope, vegetarian beef jerky, fine silk thread, a few DVDs of M*A*S*H, his laptop and a few spare batteries, a pair of exceptional headphones, four speakers mounted to the steel bars connecting the basket and balloon, a lovely scarf, a picture a friend had painted him, paper, pens, glue sticks, a poncho, and a sack of Italian pastries.