Thursday when I got home from work we finally shot off another rocket I had been working on for a while. This one was a small one, named "The Wizard". This rocket didn't have a parachute like most others. Instead it had a big orange streamer so you can see it fall. I'm not sure if it was suppose to slow it down too or just let you know where to catch it.
So we put in a B-engine (big mistake) and shot it off. This is by far the fastest rocket I have ever launched. It probably went twice as fast as all the others, due to it's small size. I was looking at the rocket when it launched and looked up immediately when it took off. By the time I looked up it was gone. Suppose to only go 570 feet, yeah right. Not my first rocket launch, this thing easily went over 1000 feet where I could no longer see it. All we saw was the wadding shoot out and that was the last of it. I don't know if the rocket blew up or if it descended too far away but that was the last we ever saw of it. The first time we have lost a rocket before the descend.
Here is a picture of our rocket.
This Saturday we decided we needed to go out and play with the camera a little more. I've been wanting to go to the zoo for quite a while but we've never made the time so we finally decided to do it. Natalie can't handle all the walking right now so I told her she can get a wheel chair. I warned her ahead of time I will be taking pictures.
It was an mediocre zoo. I've seen better. San Diego is the best (also the most expensive but worth it) and Miami comes in second for me but also happens to be the cheapest. They have really good deals online. Phoenix zoo is just too expensive for what you get, a lot of the animals are far away, some of the trails are dusty, and did I mention it's expensive? We didn't even eat a real lunch. Two personal pizzas, a pretzel, and one soda to share. 24 bucks. If I had got real a real meal it would have cost as much as an expensive steak house. And to top it off they filled my whole soda with ice. I told Natalie to get Dominican on them and she got us a whole extra free cup of soda, no ice.
We were there from 10-4 and managed to see the whole zoo. San Diego was an all day event and we didn't even get to finish Miami, well not together at least, and that was without Adri. I had to ditch Natalie at Miami to see the last few exhibits. The whole time we were there I kept doing my zebra impression. I have perfected sounding like a zebra. After years and years of hearing my impression Natalie still ask if that is what they sound like. Maybe one of these days she'll go online and see how talented I am. They had a couple poison dart frogs and a red-eyed tree frog. I have yet to see a zoo with a really impressive frog collection. I would love to see a zoo that has a bigger collection than a pet store.
That's all I have about the zoo. A quick note about last night. Last night I told Adri to go wash her hands. She tried to lie to me and tell me that she already had, this is becoming a common thing with her. However I told her to come over to me to pass the smell test. She failed. I told her to stop lying to me and wash her hands. Afterwards she grabbed her pink blanket and put it on top of me. Then she started patting me and told me I need to take a nap so I won't be cranky.
Here are some pictures from the zoo.
Glad she enjoyed it. Cost enough.
We took some of the best pictures here. The little strip mall was designed to look like South America. Adri really liked the immigration booth. She went inside and was trying to sell me stuff. To get her out the first time I had to tell her there was a fire and pull her out the window. She went back in and I had to point out the spiders to finally get her out.
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