During the month of August, Henry's Cub Scout pack (do they call them packs?) made rockets. He was quite excited about it. It took him two weeks to actually fashion the rocket and get it ready to launch. Last night was the big night. All the Cub Scouts (8, 9, and 10 year olds) launched their rockets. The results were mixed. Most of them did well - a few even flew past the big field behind our church into a neighbor's yard. A few crashed and burned on takeoff (luckily those kids had pretty good senses of humor about it). Henry's was about in the middle - it flew well into the field but not the farthest. He was happy and he and William had fun running after the rocket as it was launched.
You would have thought that Henry was a NASA engineer launching a manned expedition to another planet the way he approached this activity. Yesterday morning he informed me that he was planning to take it easy at recess today because he expected to be running pretty far to fetch his rocket after its launch. He invited the entire neighborhood, I think. Every person he saw received a "come on over to the church for rockets" talk. It was pretty funny. But he and other boys seemed to have fun, which of course is what the whole thing was about anyway.
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