Sky Rockets in Flight part 1 of 2

The Dragon Dance Festival we had planned on. But when we got off the city bus, we could see that Victoria Park was all lit up for the Mid-Autumn Festival. So Julie, the girls, and our friends agreed that after we watched the Dragon Dance, we would walk back to Victoria Park to take in all the lights.

Which is exactly what we did.

The park was filled with large nylon figurines that were lit from the inside. They were impressive. They were elaborate, big, and very colorful. The organizers had also strung thousands of lights overhead.

The overall effect was pretty magical.

By the time we had worked out way to the middle of the park though our attention was drawn to the far end of the park. Through the lights and above the glowing figurines, we saw what appeared to bio-luminescent grasshoppers on steroids. Like Mexican jumping beans with parachutes, we could see dozens of illuminated somethings flying high into the sky and then slowing floating back down to earth. There were dozens of them. We were mezmerized.

Like moths to a light, we found ourselves drawn to that end of the park to see what this could possibly be. As we drew closer, the mystery was solved. A whole parking lot’s worth of kids were using rubber bands on sticks to launch little plastic gyro-copters high into the night sky. Each one was equipped with a little l.e.d. bulb that glowed. Kids were busy either launching their helicopters or running to catch them as they descended.

When we all finally snapped out of our entranced state, our first thought was “Where do we get one?”