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| Go fly a kite! |
Huntington Beach, CA
My 4th or 5th grade class held a homemade kite-making contest. The instructions were simple: build a kite at home, bring it to school, be judged by your peers.
My resourceful father fetched two tree branches from the backyard, then cut up a brown paper grocery bag for the traditional diamond-shaped face of the kite. For the next couple hours, I sat and decorated it with fat Crayola markers.
When I was done, I asked him if he was going to make a tail for the kite. I vaguely remember him saying something like, "They asked for a kite, not a tail!" Imagine my embarrassment when I was the only kite-maker who showed up with a kite, sans tail. My gracious teacher must have felt my pain, because she affixed a tail before hanging up my kite with those belonging to my classmates.
Feel free to bring your own creation to the Huntington Beach Kite Party, although local retailer Kite Connection sells them right on the pier. This aerial celebration draws kite fliers from all over the globe to show off their skills, and a roped-off section is reserved for pros.
Keep your fingers crossed for a nice breeze, or you'll be sitting in the sand with a kite as lifeless as my grammar school project.
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