Friday, July 21, 2017

Day 7, 8, 9 and 10 - Homemade Rocket

On Tuesday (day 7 here), I woke up at 11:45 to 12pm. After I was up for a little bit, we talked about what movie to see, and Spiderman was playing at 4:05pm at the local theater.  It was awesome, and this was probably the best Spiderman in the entire Marvel franchise. After the movie was over, we stopped at Walmart and picked up the golf tubes we ordered to make our homemade rocket. We needed plastic fins too, so on the way home we got an old sign off of a telephone pole to make what we needed.


After getting back to Uncle Troy’s house, we got everything together we needed to start building a rocket. Uncle Troy cut up the fins while I cut the rocket body. Then I looked up a video on how to make the parachute, and then made the parachute while Uncle Troy glued the fins onto the rocket. I made the parachute out of a tablecloth, which I had a little trouble with, but I could do it again if I have to. After we got done, we relaxed. Around 8pm Uncle Troy made us some spaghetti and garlic cheese bread, It was all super good. He also told me to start setting my alarm for 7am so I don't sleep till noon every day. We cleaned up and went to bed.



Wednesday (day 8 here), I woke up 12 minutes before my alarm was even supposed to go off because Max somehow opened my door, came in and started licking my face. We drove to the dealership in Athens, (Not Athens Greece) and got his truck's oil changed. That took about an hour, and I caught no Pokemon (Yes I play Pokemon Go). We got on the highway going back home when Uncle Troy stopped the truck and said, “I was going to have you drive”.  He stopped on the side of the road and we switched places. I drove us to the gas station, and then back to the house.

Thursday (day 9 here). The night before Uncle Troy was trying to make a nose cone that would deploy a parachute, and was trying to make it out of baby bottles. That wasn’t working so he decided to try and 3D print one instead. He spent most of the day modeling the nose cone, and now is trying to get it to print. I took a nap around 12:30 and woke up at 3:30. I played with Max outside for a while, the came back in, it is really hot here. Later on I went to hang out in the living room. Uncle Troy came out and made us Chili cheese dogs, and we watched Rick and Morty. It's probably my favorite animated show because it's just so stupid and random. We watched about 2 hours’ and then went to bed.



Friday (day 10 here). Uncle Troy figured out how to 3D print last night, but didn’t start printing it till this morning. I woke up at 7am this morning without the help of Max. Uncle Troy got me and we started working on the test rocket. We had to make the rocket propellant, and a lot of other stuff just to get a test flight. This was all to make sure the rocket propellant worked properly. We did a test launch, and it worked great!  We launched the rocket into the woods on purpose so it wouldn’t hit a neighbor’s house. After the launch we looked for the rocket…it could not be found. (For now.) We made a video of what we did, and plan to make more.  Stay tuned and have a great day.

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