Thanks to Uncle Simon and Charlie, Clinton and Harrison have discovered a love for flying rockets. They are often looking online for new rockets to buy and test out. Clinton found a rocket called 'Big Bertha' online and thought it looked good and bought it but when it arrived he realised that it was a kit to build big bertha. So Clinton and Harry spent a Saturday assembling the rocket, sand papering it, spraying it with base coats, then spraying layers of gold paint and finally sticking it's big bertha stickers on. This was quite a long process because it involved drying times in between.
Harry loved using the spray paint!
He did a pretty good job of keeping the paint even too.
The final product - without the stickers on - unfortunately I didn't get a photo with the stickers.
A couple of weeks later Clinton invited Bryan and Michael and Tyler to join himself and Harrison in launching 'Big Bertha' on the mudflats. Here are Clinton's photos of what happened...
The rocket went up and then burst into flames!
The remnants of 'Big Bertha'
Needless to say after all the effort of making this rocket - Harrison cried when it caught on fire!
Poor Harry...better luck with the next one!
Luckily Clinton brought along another rocket which they successfully launched a few times. Bryan very helpfully retrieved it a several times from the vast distance to would travel across the mudflats.
Poor little Tyler didn't enjoy the noise it made!
Success!
Fair well Big Bertha....it was fun while it lasted.
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