This week I had a surprise from a friend of mine who decided she would help me knock off one of the things from my bucket list. Together we tackled #70 Fly a kite! Yes, I realize it may seem weird that I never flew a kite in my childhood, but I have for sure been told to do so more than once.
The first thing we did was build the kite together, instead of buying one. Of course, she was well prepared and had purchased all the materials needed before surprising me with this idea (so anyone thinking of helping me with something on my bucket list, please take notes)!
The first step in building our very own kite was to determine what style we were going to construct. My friend had already researched the idea so she pretty much told me how we were going to do it, which made it much easier to get down to business. A diamond shaped kite that was going to be not too big, and not too small!
Next we had to connect two 10-inch skewers together making one full-length 20-inch rod. We then had to repeat this step for an equal 20-inch rod in order to make a cross.
The next step was to carve notches into the skewers so we could tie our string to the outer edges of the skewers creating a diamond shape around them.
Once we had our diamond shaped frame, we then placed it on a garbage bag and cut out our shape.
Next we folded the bag over the string and taped it on.
The final steps were to add some fabric for the tail and, of course, some fishing string to fly the kite. Voilà!
At this point it was time to try and fly the kite, even though the winds were not all that great. The first attempt went like this…
Following that we were in hysterics, absolutely crying at our epic fail of an attempt. I think we both had anticipated it miserably failing to begin with, so it made this run much more funny than expected.
After that my friend decided she was going to give it a shot and teach me a thing or two. She started by concentrating really hard… then went for it!
Because her attempt was successful, I needed to have a decent run at it, to be able to say I flew a kite too. After all, how hard could this really be? We figured closer to the water might help, as it was much windier the closer we got.
With a brief gust of wind, I gave it a go, and away she went!
We did it! We flew a kite and crossed off another item from my bucket list!
Once again brotha you cease to amaze me, great job. Next time buy one; it might just be what you need to have a successful flight right off the hop. Needless to say great job both ya.... Oh yeah wind helps ;-)
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