Balloons float real-life 'Up' house near LA  National Geographic
Channel team successfully floats little house held aloft by 300
weather balloons. Why can't life always mimic a charming Pixar
movie?  Up house comes to life © National Geographic
Channel/Stewart Volland  Ever wished real life could be more
like a Pixar movie? It was for a little while on Saturday, as a
team of awesomizers managed to successfully lift a house into
the air, "Up" style, using a cluster of brightly colored
balloons.  The adorable 2,000-pound, 16x16-foot yellow house
took to the skies with the aid of 300 weather balloons that grow
to 8 feet tall when inflated. From top to bottom, the entire
aircraft measured 10 stories high and reached an altitude of
10,000 feet. It flew for about an hour at dawn from a private
airfield east of Los Angeles. Oh, and there were people (of the
non-animated variety) aboard.  The floating feat sets a world
record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted,
according to the National Geographic