Attending a middle school rocket launching party last year ignited Ethan's desire to build and launch his very own rocket.
Fortunately for him is best friend J*'s mother is the middle school science teacher in charge of the rocket launching materials. Once Ethan and Mr. Me Too designed their very own Lego inspired rockets from soda bottles Ethan then become relentlessly insistent, as only he can, about setting a time to launch these bad boys. With only days left we finally squeezed in an hour of launching between school, packing, graduation ceremonies, and everything else that comes right before skipping town for the summer.
Mrs. Karen only had to show the boys once how to fill the bottles with 1L of water and they made sure each and every subsequent bottle was full and ready to go.
No one minded at all a few water mishaps along the way- even in our shady spot the heat was intense.
There are a couple of ways to actually launch these rockets one of which uses a compressor. To simplify things we used a bike pump instead.
Always the teacher Karen had the boys figure out how much pressure they needed and where to find it on the pump.
After one last technical difficulty......
the real fun began.
Graham was loving everything about this! It's not often that 2 year olds get to be so involved.
My favorite part was watching Graham get blasted back with each of his launches.
Right before touchdown.
I'm not sure who had more fun here- Mrs. Karen or the boys!
We love, love, LOVE the Hasiuk family. We've made some of the best memories (laughing crying, talking, and talking, and talking some more) of our stay here with you all and we will miss you dearly. Let's not let Dubai and Shayba be our last vacation destinations together.
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