New Rev 1.5

After our trip to Sea World, we made our pilgrimage to the kite store. Having spoken with Dave earlier, I already knew that they had the final item needed for my collection – a Rev 1.5 SLE – a quadline stunt kite (they call it a “sportwing”) that is highly controllable. It’s truly a high-tech kite.

On Sunday (yesterday), my boy and I went back to Huntington Beach in order to launch it on its maiden voyage. We also launched another kite with some of our line laundry including a new giant frog! Oh, what fun! Unfortunately, the wind refused to cooperate again and, after flying the kite with the line laundry for awhile, we took it down in order to play with the Rev 1.5. As to be expected, I got to play with it for a few minutes and my boy spent most of the time with it while I helped retrieve it when it crashed. I managed to take the following video with my new cell phone (that I still don’t really know how to use yet) that shows my boy flying the kite. Not too bad for a beginner! Can’t wait until we get a day with more wind – we haven’t had a decent day in several weeks.

Flying a kite made by Dave

Flying a Kite made by Dave
Originally uploaded by Bassoon Man.

The local grocery store had a sale on tickets for Sea World – buy a ticket and get an annual pass for free. As a result, I bought tickets for my son and me and thought it would make a fun day for us. As we were pulling off the freeway, near Sea World, we saw a large number of kites flying in the adjacent park. Of course, we thought that it might be the San Diego Kite Club enjoying their monthly fly (the second Saturday of the month) and we were right! We stopped by just to say hello (my boy told me that I wasn’t allowed to fly any kites ) and found some of our friends – Dave from the Kite Store (the one responsible for my new addiction) and his wife Iris. Dave happened to have a rather cool homemade kite that the club was using on showing kids how to make their own and he, very kindly, decided to give it to my boy. As you can see – my son got a chance to fly the kite!

BTW, this photo may not be the greatest but it was on of the first taken with my new cell phone (which I’m still learning how to use).