Blast Off ...

July 20, 2014

 Grandpa had bought a rocket for the grandchildren ... without Grandma knowing it ...

while I was in town ... they launched the Rocket for the first time ... and it went straight up ...

and landed in the tree in front of the house ...

now this was the day before Nathan & Katie had arrived ...

We were all trying to figure out how to get it down from the tree ...

Nathan suggested shooting the branch to make it fall down ...

and by golly that worked ... !!!

While Grandpa was tending to the rocket ...

the boys wanted to shoot the rifle ...

I still can't believe they both hit the fence post their first shot ... 

Good eye boys ....

Ok ... once again they were going to launch the Rocket ...

5 ... 4 ... 3... 2 ... 1 ... BLAST-OFF ...

up it went ...

floating down in the field ...

just having too much fun ... lets do it again ...

Oh no ... !!!

Where is it going ... ???

Far across the field ... onto the crown land ...

somewhere ... amongst the trees ...

we all headed over to the trees ... walking thru the brush ... 

Finally Katie found it quite a distance away ... !!!

 Hooray ... !!! 

The kids were having a blast ...

one more time ... fired off the Rocket ... and ...

it went up ... way up ... the wind caught it and oh my it was GONE ...

this time we had no idea where it finally landed ...

or if it even did ...

The guys decided instead of walking thru the bush ...

that they would drive the quads over ...

and look for the rocket that way ...

But to no avail ...

they could not find the orange Rocket ...

Guess it is lost for good ...

It was a lot of fun anyway ... !!!

Maybe by chance it will appear someday .........