Saturday Paul and I ate lunch at ESPARZA'S®, a great Mexican Restaurant in Portland. Paul took a picture of me while at ESPARZA'S®. Rochelle had other things to do, so she did not join us. We then picked up 1 of Paul's friends and his son and drove down to southern Oregon to watch people shoot model rockets. Dad, Marc, and i used to shoot rockets when we were kids living in New Orleans in the early 1970s but gave it up after moving back to Lafayette in 1974.
About a mile before we got to the launch site, we saw a sign for a donkey crossing. Yes, that's right; a donkey crossing. Unfortunately, the sign was in the shadow, so my pictures of the sign did not come out very clear. Maybe next year. A lot of these rockets were very well done. Here are some particularly impressive rockets we saw. The sky was clear blue, not a cloud in sight. Plus the wind was not blowing too strongly, so the weather was perfect for shooting rockets. We watched the rockets blast off for a couple of hours. It was great. We saw a couple of rockets drag race. We also saw some 2 stage rockets take off. Inevitably, we saw a couple of rockets fail to open their parachutes and crash to the ground. I took some pictures of the rockets taking off . I also recall that the government had set limits on how high the rockets could fly. Yes, even in these pre-9/11 days the federal government was clamping down on rocket flights.
Paul builds his own rockets as well. I did not get a photo of his rockets this year. However, he has built some pretty impressive rockets.
After returning to Paul and Rochelle's home, I recall we drove up to Mount Hood to see some hotel where the movie THE SHINING® was filmed. I recall Paul putting chains on the car tires and Taaka coming with us and loving the snow. I think we ate dinner up there.
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