Kite flying

Just 5mins drive from our place, there are two plots of grasslands. Empty for now....until someone decides it's time to build something, which I hope will not be anytime soon.

When you go there in the evenings and especially on weekends, you would see people gathering to fly kites. I had never flown one in my life. After watching these people on several occasions, I bought one. It was the nicest one the stall was selling - Winnie the Pooh. ;) I mean there was a time when I really liked Pooh and his friends, but it really wouldn't have been my first choice if there was only a wider variety.

We made our first trip last week and Pooh didn't take off. A windless day.

Today, we tried once again. We thought there was some breeze when we stuck our heads out of the windows.

Here is Peen flying the kite at a field even nearer our place. But because it wasn't open enough, he didn't get very far, or rather very high.

We then drove to the actual place and I tried my hand at it as well. As you can see, I'm really not very good at this. It looked more like I was dancing (very ungracefully) with the kite!

The little girl was fascinated with the kites for a while but let's face it, how many times can the little girl go, "Wah!!"? She got bored after some time, not to mentioned hot and bothered. She ended up squatting and started picking on the grass and at times tasting it.

It was a really really hot day and we all got a tan just from kite-flying / watching.

Anyway, there was only one time when the kite finally took flight and began to soar. But we ran out of string! Grrrr. After a few more attempts where Pooh nose dived, we called it a day. But not without first stumbling upon a nice guy who sells string for kites! We immediately bought a reel, all ready for our next attempt. :)