A Few More Kite Flying Pics...

Serious Wind

It has been so windy for the last couple of days. The kind of wind that makes the french doors flex and the "beep, beep, beep" go all night long. At least this time we had the sense not to set the alarm so we wouldn't be awakened at 3 am with the alarm going off (oddly enough, the kids never wake up when this happens even though it is ear splitting). We decided to try our luck with flying kites today after church. Matt was napping and missed the excitement. Cassy was typing her "Lights Over Africa" book, so she missed out too, although she was outside and I am sure heard us screaming! We started out with the boys alien kite. It took us a few tries to get the hang of it, but we were able to fly him for quite a while with the string out as far as it would go. Soon after, that little alien man decided to try some acrobatics and he kept trying to take out the spectators with some dive bombs. Alex tried his little star wars kite, but the wind just flexed it in half. Then we brought out the big kahuna, the star kite. before we could even try, we had such a gust that the kite practically took Alex with it. Unfortunately, it ended up dragging through the field for a while before it became airborne and I think a could of the support sticks fell out or broke so it ended up looking more like a flying turkey. We tried to get the alien man relaunched so I could help with the flying turkey. The wind took our little alien man up so fast it broke the spindle I was holding and that alien man flew away and started doing his dive bomb acrobatics again. We found him on the next street over, the broken spindle stuck on someone's chimney. By the time I got over there, the boys were trying to climb a tree to get on the roof to unstick the spindle. I opted for some scissors to cut the string. We recovered both kites (although we haven't found all the sticks). We will have to go fly a kite another day...I am worn out.