Up, Up and Away

Ahhh, the blessed tranquility of a lay in after the night before.... and it's much needed :) I must remember from now on to stay asleep until at least 11 am the morning after a large intake of booze, because it seems that I've missed the usual 30 minute shaking session you usually get after a skin full and you're dehydrated. Yay!

And, the weather is beautiful! It's really hot, not a cloud in the sky and no breeze either... and with that in mind it seems like today would be the ideal opportunity for the maiden voyage of the Rocket that Phil bought yesterday.

So after a little recovery time, coffee, tea and food we head off to the biggest field we can think of to set the rocket off - and boy does it fly! It also "Scares the crap out of people too" - thanks for that useful comment football playing dude ;) I think it went up about 325 feet or so and comes down nearly as quick as it goes up! All very good fun though! There are some pictures and a few movie files [rocket1 and rocket2] if you're interested.

We then have a barbecue (no, we didn't use the C6-5 that came with the rocket to light it either!) with burgers and sausages and finally then get about to planting the bamboo and acer that we got.

Typically of course the 2 places that we chose to put the plants happen to be the two places where a)a bloody great brick is and b) a bloody great tree root is. Needless to say there is now no brick, no tree root and I've lost several finger nails :)

Nevermind, they look cool, I don't have a hangover and I'm still in my 2nd decade and I could possibly still be pissed. Rah!

Posted by Abi on the May 15, 2005 9:48 PM