Activity date: December 2010
Energy level: 3/10
Cost: $0 (We already had kites).
It was a miserable wet Saturday, but that's what raincoats were invented for.
We headed off to Garry Point Park in Richmond. We walked around the perimeter of the park, observing a bald eagle perched on a navigation buoy. It was holding a fish in its talons and tearing hunks off to eat. A brave crow was harassing it but the eagle seemed unconcerned.
The rain stopped. It was still cold and very windy so we got the kites out of the car, assembled them, and flew them. The first spot we tried, the kites kept crashing to the ground. We realized we were partially sheltered by some trees so we headed towards a large red sculpture where the wind was uninterrupted.
We had much better success flying the kites. Thing One was having trouble controlling his kite, so I looped the string through a notch on the reel. Then I took off my belt, looped it through the handle of the reel and around his waist. Now he could fly the kite without fear of letting go.
The wind was quite strong and surprisingly tiring as the kite pulled against the belt.
Thing One had a trick kite which he was causing to dance about in the air but occasionally it would crash into the ground.
After a while we were cold and numb so we retreated to the car to eat hard boiled eggs and PB & honey sandwiches.
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