FZ200 enlargement..a surprise

Just as an exercise, I had the photo below enlarged to 18x26. I pretty much assumed it would be disappointing, but I just wanted to see what it looked like, and what the limits of other photos might be. A $50 experiment with Mpix. Much to my surprise, it looks spectacular on the metallic paper I ordered. Stunning. Additionally, Mpix called me (they do a fine job), and told me they could go as large as 24x36 and it would still look great. Should have done it. I know the pixel peepers are going to flame this, that's the cyber-world, but for the rest of us, I thought I would share a real world experience.