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<a href="http://duxtheballoonman.com/home.cfm">Dux The Balloon Man</a> decorated Higher Ground for the Grace Potter and the Nocturnals NYE show. Via his Facebook Page:

With my kids brandishing balloon pumps at their sides, Madigan, Ezea, Jackson and I took on our scariest balloon contract yet...Higher Ground, dundunduuuuuuuuhh.   They needed something "UNFORGETABLE" for their 2011 Grace Potter New Year Bash, (quite a task, no?) but i put on my thinking cap, (made of balloons of course) and set out to destroy any chance I had to work in this town again.  Visions of wreaths, christmas trees and disembodied red suited bellies dangling from the ceiling danced in my head.  But a christmas theme...really?... it would just look like left overs from a rockin christmas party that never happened (hint hint Higher Ground),  So i did, what any self respecting artist would have done...I got my kids.  With my child labor steadied at my side and only the idea of a giant christmas wreath tangled in my grey matter, I strode in to Higher Ground like a leather-clad rock star!  (With three kids.  And a wheelie cart full of balloons.)  And did what i was Higher-ed to do (wink).  But so it would seem I'm infallible as you all must have known by now and the balloon was "gag me with a spoon" good...of course, but i did have more help then I deserved from Jack and Ezea and Madigan if you're reading this, your ideas were perfect, so to all of you out there that have seen our New Year Luck Dragon "Falcor" in person, make a wish, Fantasia's counting on you.  

So I would like to thank Higher Ground, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, my Kids (amazing job guys) 

and of course, 

Happy New Year to all and to all a disembodied red suited bellies dangling from the ceiling New Year.