Moreland Ward Rocket Launch

Our ward held a rocket launch party at Clinton Park, a place Meg and Aaron and I hadn't visited since 2004--a place that inspired me to write one of the last entries in my journal (this blog, born a few months later, essentially replaced my journal), which happened to chronicle my distaste for living in homogenous Beaverton and a desire to live within Portland. Well, it took a while, and a new city in between, but we eventually made it.

Our spring weather has been fantastic this year, and today was no exception. Nobody in our family had built a rocket to launch, but we enjoyed watching others launch and chase after theirs (aged trees ate many, if not most, of the rockets that escaped the launchpad). Watching my family interact with their peers and friends from afar with my camera suits my pleasure well, not that I'm some crazy hermit that stalks his prey from the fringe--I get along with people just fine. Meg and the boys probably enjoyed socializing and playing catch with a football and running freely up-and-down the hill as they did watching the rockets, which is kind of the whole point of so many activities: they're just excuses to get together and talk and play. And that's fine in my book.

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