I finally feel like I’ve made a little bit of progress with the puzzle. I have been able to work on it for a couple of hours over the last two evenings after Derek has gone to bed. Most of the balloons are at least halfway completed now. Here’s a couple of pictures from two nights ago.

A little bit of balloon detail:

and

The left side of this balloon was driving me nuts until I realized that I actually had two of the orange pieces upside down and in the wrong spot. Once I fixed that the left side of the balloon went together much easier…imagine that!

Day 10 Progress – Not a huge amount of difference other than the right side.

Close up of the right side:

Left side:

Middle:

I’m hoping to get some time later today to work on it a bit more, but we’ll see how that goes. Making tacos for dinner tonight with friends who are coming over this afternoon to watch a movie and have popcorn. Should be a fun day!