Out they go. Julie finds a reference image of a hot air balloon on her phone in case that helps.

It does! She gives the balloon six wide panels, Julie's neutrals and Winona's dark blue and her own indigo with orange stripes, and has the basket look like a puffy cloud.

"That's so cute," says Julie. "All right, in you go - tow rope?"

Yup, there it is, with a loop on the end for easy handling.

"Up, up, and away." Julie takes it and attempts to tow.

Up, up, and away! The balloon isn't affected by air resistance, exactly, but it is kind of heavy.

Julie hauls it on wing power till she has enough altitude to go over buildings, then starts applying magic bursts of force to tug it along a little less pokily. Winona follows.

Wheeeee.

Soon they are at the movie theater! Julie tows the balloon down.

That was pretty cool.

"Agreed," says Julie. She buys three tickets and decides against buying any movie snacks since Denice shouldn't overdo it and they can go see Incredibles 2.

Movie!

Denice winds up clinging to Winona a bit when the mind-control plot is revealed.

Winona's very clingable. "Do you need to step out?" she whispers.

She's not sure how to answer that. It's not hurting her or anything.

"Okay." They sit through the rest of the film.

She's a little subdued, after, but only a little.

"Welp," says Julie, "I think it's dinnertime. You up for a restaurant, Janet, or should I call in delivery?"

Restaurant is fine.

They tromp around the little complex the theater is in, consider and bypass a buffet, and wind up at a Thai place. "You should probably get an appetizer," says Julie to Denice apologetically.

That's fine. She'll get this one.

The Glories order entrees and chat about the movie till their food arrives.

She joins in! All the new powers Jack-Jack had were pretty cool.

"They were!" agrees Winona.

"I like it better when somebody just has a few powers and uses them creatively," says Julie, "but it was pretty cute."

Yeah. That's sort of a different kind of movie, though, when it's about people being clever like that.

"Yeah, it is. All the good ones I'm thinking of aren't really kids' movies..."