That Time We Almost Burned Down Our RV Park

My husband and I have been saving a Chinese lantern for quite a while. We forgot to release it when we went to the desert. We decided we should release it on the first of the year, yesterday. We opened it up and prepared it to be lit. I am not very familiar with Chinese lanterns so I didn't realize you actually light a little square that stays lit for quite a while. I noticed that the lantern had a few holes, so I didn't think it would work. But my husband was patient with it and it started to lift up. Then all of a sudden it starts flying through the air sideways, heading straight for the palm trees at the RV Resort we are staying at. I started running and yelling, "watch the baby!" I actually thought I could get the balloon before it hit the tree but it was too high. It got stuck on a palm tree and we could see the flames from the lantern. I started freaking out and yelling for my husband to think of a genius idea to get us out of this one. It stayed there for a few minutes, but eventually lifted off and went higher in the sky. This whole time I was recording it on his GoPro. When we thought the lantern wasn't going to budge, my husband took the GoPro and hid all evidence that we would've started the fire.  My husband followed the lantern and it eventually landed in an open parking lot. Thank God! I am never sending off a lantern with holes ever again! I may never use a lantern again, except in the desert...haha.