I was recently talking to my daughter about a potential Walt Disney World trip. We were discussing how we’d get there: airfares have gone up, and I wasn’t that excited about driving to Florida from New Hampshire.

Then, as only an 8-year-old who still believes in movie magic could, she offered an alternative: “Let’s go in a flying house like Carl from ‘Up’ did.”

I laughed and explained that even though that would be a lot of fun, it was impossible.

I’ve got to start having more faith in magic, it seems.

Watch this:

Inside the Magic reports that National Geographic Channel’s “How Hard Can it Be?” will premiere in fall 2011 and will feature an episode during which scientists build and fly a 16-foot wide x 18-foot tall house using 300 8-foot colored weather balloons to lift the structure into the air.

I love when my sense of what’s possible is turned upside-down.

Compare this shot to the one above:

They really did it!

Would you take a flying house to Walt Disney World? I think I’d give it a shot.