I know that summer is almost over (sigh!) and June seems like ages ago (double sigh!)... but our girls still talk about our Father's Day excursion like it was yesterday! It must have been good then...
So off we went at 10 am on Father's Day to the Center for Science Teaching and Learning (formerly known as Tanglewood Preserve), conveniently located in Rockville Centre. With Julia as my partner in crime and Kirsten as Chris's, we spent the morning building our rockets from the supplied kits. We were given a science lesson about thrust and gravity and how things fly, but really they were more excited to build and (of course) decorate.
The best part of the entire morning was the launch! We marched our rockets over to the open field. We were second on line, which of course was torture! We could not wait to send these babies up into the clouds.
And to the clouds they did travel! It was the perfect overcast day for rocket watching. Lots of clouds, no sun glaring in our eyes. And watch those rockets we did. After a super smokey and noisy takeoff, we watched them ascend into the heavens and then magically begin to return to us, parachute unfurled. Unfortunately, Kirsten's rocket was left precariously hanging from a branch in a large tree and Julia's rocket made its home in some long grass. Although we did not have a rocket to bring home with us, our memories are still fresh and of course there is always video!
And to the clouds they did travel! It was the perfect overcast day for rocket watching. Lots of clouds, no sun glaring in our eyes. And watch those rockets we did. After a super smokey and noisy takeoff, we watched them ascend into the heavens and then magically begin to return to us, parachute unfurled. Unfortunately, Kirsten's rocket was left precariously hanging from a branch in a large tree and Julia's rocket made its home in some long grass. Although we did not have a rocket to bring home with us, our memories are still fresh and of course there is always video!
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