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Sat, 30 Aug 2008

Inaugural Rocket Launch
For Berkeley's recent birthday, his gift from dear ol' Dad was an Estes Rocket Alpha III Starter Set (just $20!). I remember (with fondness) launching these model rockets back when I was a wee lad (a Cub Scout to be precise). Berkeley is always building rocket ships with his legos, so I thought it was a good fit.

During the past couple of weeks, we have been assembling the rocket ship and the launch platform. This evening we took it over to Sixty Acres Park in Redmond for the inaugural rocket launch. Here are the pictures:

It was surprisingly brisk; get cozy! *kkk* Three ... Two ... One Blast off! Recovering the rocket.

We packed a McDonald's dinner (because we had to get the Clone Wars Happy Meal toys!) with the intention of having a casual picnic while launching to rocket a couple of times. Well, it didn't quite work out that way... it was cold up there, and it was windy. So we only ended up doing one launch. The wind carried the rocket about, oh, I dunno, a quarter mile away from the launch pad. If you look closely in the last picture - the little white dot next the shamrock-green-colored port-o-potty is me almost at the place where the rocket landed.

Despite launching the rocket only once, Berkeley had a blast (get it? a "blast"). He is already planning the next launch and is going to invite 4 of his closest buddies to come and watch.

:: Posted by rus on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:56 pm
:: Filed under /daily_journal/2008

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