Kites!

Hey All,

Happy weekend everyone! Im chilling in St. Kitts at my favorite internet cafe, doing a little interwebbing. This week has been pretty darn fun. Lots of adventures and stories, but I dont want to overwhelm you with everything at once. So, I will start with the kite flying.

The week before last that we had bought kites from the Wallgreens  in Old San Juan and waited in intense anticipation for our chance to fly them the next week. We had everything planned for Last Sunday; interneting and phone calls in the morning, kite flying at round 3:00, and the dinner at restaurant in San Juan. It was shaping up to be the perfect day. We had our kites all packed up and cameras in hand. As we went through security and passed our bags through the metal detectors, the guards stopped us and started to search our bags. Apparently, because the kites were still in there packaging, they needed to go through customs or we couldn’t take them off the ship. Well, customs was closed and all of the customs agents had left for the morning. Frustration started to build and a couple of the people in our group (not me) were voicing their opinion about the stupidity of the situation. I mean, these kites cost like $2.99, and were probably not even going to last through the day. The guards took our reaction as a personal attack and wrote a couple of names down, (again, not mine) and called the chief of security. After a while of compromises and apologies ( “what we have here is a failure to communicate”)  we concluded that if we take the kites out of the wrappers, we could take them off. The whole thing got everyone really revved up, which I think made the day even more enjoyable.

So we headed on up to Fort de Morro on the other side of the island. The Fort has a huge grass lawn in front of it that is usually filled with picnickers, photographers and other kite fliers. Today was no exception and the conditions were perfect to launch our cheap, plastic kites. We spent the next few hours running around like 10 year olds. It was brilliant…almost whimsical. I had so much fun. I reminded me of all the Easters that we would get the sames little kites and try to run outside and fly them, except this time I was in another Country. The wind was pretty intense off the water. Our kites lasted about 2 hours before the plastic ripped and the strings broke, but we were as content as could be. We got some great pictures all got a pretty good laugh about it. Great memories.

Here are some shots of the day. I am going to try and post a video or two soon of our adventures.

Stay tuned for more stories from this week. And make sure you check out the myspace page and keep listening to the tunes.

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Word of the Day:

whimsical |ˈ(h)wimzikəl|
adjective
1 playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way : a whimsical sense of humor.
2 acting or behaving in a capricious manner : the whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy.

Much Love,

BJSR