Flying Kites

Monday morning the guys went golfing while the girls went to breakfast. After we were all back together we decided to go fly kites at a park near our house. Grandma Pack has a TON of kites so we all had our own. I think everyone had a great time flying them.

Courtney was a natural, and it helped that her kite was the easiest to fly and that there was enough wind. The only problem she had was that we couldn't figure out how to keep the string from unwinding. So her little hand would shake as the string would unwind and it started to annoy her at the end.

Ethan got his kite up but it didn't stay for too long. He mostly played on the playground near the field or watching us fly them.

Andrew had a rough time with his shark kite, but he did get it up once-in-a-while. Grandpa Pack had a DANGEROUS trick kite that wasn't cooperating. The wind would shift or die down and it would take a dive. Mike kept his kite up without a problem and made those of us who were stuggling look like fools ;) Meanwhile, Grandma Pack got out this poor little lost kite that had never been able to fly very well to try and give it another chance....but it didn't want to fly. It was unbalanced or something and just kept going around in circles.

AFter a while we were hot, tired and thirsty. So Bryan, Courtney, Ethan and I left to go home and get dinner ready for everyone else.