Thursday, August 5, 2010

BLAST OFF!

This is one of the rockets that Paul got for his B-day. He painted it himself. It looks pretty cool!

Alex is in love with it because it is much bigger than the other one he has.

Here he is trying to make it blast off while Daddy prepares the launch pad.
Paul, Alex and Dominic just before shooting off the big one.
Dom is holding the smaller rocket that we shot of first, so it is in pieces.


10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4....

...3, 2, 1...BLAST OFF!

Where did it go?


And, here are Ben, Dominic and Molly, part of the small audience.

Paul is getting much better at angling the rockets so they don't fly off the planet. After losing one of his original rockets that he got for Fathers Day (on its maiden voyage!), he has learned a few tricks so the wind doesn't steal them away. Alex loves, loves, loves to shoot off the rockets with Daddy, but he (and Dominic) refuse to push the button. All in all, it is a fun and inexpensive little hobby that we can all go and do together!

3 comments:

Megan and Greg said...

Great pics of the rocket launching off. Camping looked great! Those pics of the boys are so cute.

Rochelle said...

Rocket Man! lalalalalaa...I was playing volleyball. Team Dan, Daniel, Rochelle, VERSUS Randy and John....yeah they creamed us...maybe because everytime the ball came at me I ducked and shut my eyes. Cool paint job on the rocket....is the skull a sticker?

Dan said...

We had a fun day.
We watch the rocket from the volleyball court.