Kite Flying

I bought my first kite yesterday. And I got a chance to fly it today! I went to the Cesar Chavez Park by the Berkeley Marina - one of my favorite jogging spots. It's always windy down there and it had become a kite flyer's spot.

My kite is a stupid-looking "dragon." Stupid because it doesn't look like a dragon at all. It's a beginner kite so it was easy to fly. I took it out of the plastic case, tied the string in the loop and voila! My kite instantly went up with a little push from the wind coming from the San Francisco Bay.

It was so fun flying my kite! I was tugging the string, trying to make it go higher and running with it so it won't fall down. And looking up at my kite against the blue sky backdrop made me feel like a little kid again. It brought back memories of making my own kites with my cousins and friends in the Philippines.

I remember how we used to make kites out of newspapers and "walis tingting" (sticks you get from a coconut leaf) and using rice to glue them together. We used to steal my mom's sewing threads to attach to our kites. It was so much fun running around haystacks on empty ricefields. It was always fun. I still remember even riding our bikes and attaching the string to the back so it would fly.

Well, I didn't have to make my kite. I bought it ready to fly but I will probably make a project soon.

After an hour or so of kiteflying, I decided it was time to go. It was getting too cold for me and I had to stop by Home Depot to get D a copy of my new apartment key. They had to rekey my apartment building coz one of the tenants got mugged and so they decided it was a good precautionary measure to rekey the whole building. So I went to Home Depot and had a copy made for D.

Later in the evening I was gonna try to read the Da Vinci Code but I got side track with Nanny 911 and other shows I recorded in my DVR.

And that was my Monday. Pretty mundane - except for kiteflying.