Okay, so we all remember flying a kite as a kid, right? Well, we ended up flying a kite that is meant for those of us who got bored with those old single string kites.
We went to my Dad's place for the weekend, which is in Ocean Shores, Washington, where the international kite flying contest was held this year. Dad and Nancy ended up going and watching, and realized that you could do amazing things with kites (which I never realized either). They ended up buying two acrobatic kites. We didn't know this on Saturday when we arrived, but they told us Saturday night that the next day we would go fly a kite. Kristin and I are pretty easy going so we were okay with this (thinking of the old single string kites we had as kids). We were good, and being on the beach rarely is a bad thing.
When we got to the beach they pulled out two kites, and they were in these nice heavy duty bags. After getting them out and putting them together, we noticed there were two strings for each kites. With these two strings you can make them do all kinds of interesting things. You can make them spin almost without moving the kites location, you can make them do big loops, dive, climb, go horizontal just off the ground, land them, take off from the ground (no running required) and this is for amateurs like us. The pros can do even more stuff, and no, we have no desire to be pro's. We were on the beach for a couple hours just flying these kites. It was a great time and an amazing amount of fun. To me it was funner than many of the things we do for entertainment. Of course, the beach, ocean and good people always helps too.
So, we enjoyed this so much, we actually ended up buying two, two string kites for ourselves. You should go out and try these, they are a lot of fun. If I happen to be around on a windy day, let me know if you want to go and fly a kite.
