If you bring her one she walks around with it all day, all darn day, until at night she falls asleep still clutching it in her little hand. We then gently take it away and put it in the kitchen. The next morning she finds her pet partly deflated and therefore grounded. She spends the next day dragging it behind her as it dutifully bounces along.

Tomorrow I leave this love and joy for five long weeks on the other side of the world. I am excited and simultaneously sad, knowing what I will miss.

Liberty loves balloons. Yesterday she was inspereable from it. Today the balloon isn't doing so well. She is pulling it around encouraging it to get back up in the air.

I have my visa to come and go from India for the next year. Probably I will only get to use it once but who knows?

I leave on Sunday.