On Sunday, Aug 3, we went out to the fields between the high school and the elementary school to launch our rockets.
I can vaguely remember launching rockets in the same location as a kid, presumably when either Mike or Evan was making the rockets. I don’t think I had ever assembled my own rocket as a kid.
I went for a tiny rocket with no parachute and painted it in tiger stripes. I called it the Teeny Tiny Tiger. Heather named hers Dragonite. We can’t remember what Corinne called hers.
This took an inordinate amount of fidgeting as the igniters didn’t seem to be igniting energetically enough to light the fuel. After a long time fussing about and only getting one launch we tried attaching two ignition systems simultaneously and that did the trick. I suspect the engines had absorbed too much moisture and just needed more energy to get started. Unfortunately we had burned through half the igniters on failed attempts. But we did get all 3 rockets to fly at least once and we flew some twice.
That evening was s’mores in the driveway in which other family groups participated in shifts. At one point it included Megan’s family. Erin’s family arrived after Megan’s left (returning from a trip to Maine after the reunion). Seems like there was one more group too, but I can’t recall.
