{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-04T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquewhite-badger-125150.hostingersite.com\/kites\/2008\/01\/04\/new-year%e2%80%99s-day-with-the-san-diego-kite-club-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:31:24","slug":"new-year%e2%80%99s-day-with-the-san-diego-kite-club-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/2008\/01\/04\/new-year%e2%80%99s-day-with-the-san-diego-kite-club-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Day with the San Diego Kite Club, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Banners<\/a>Well, I didn’t quite finish my post from the other day so here’s “Part 2” – after watching the synchronized kite fliers, the wind picked up a bit and the banners started fluttering a bit more, which is always a good thing at a kite festival. I was particularly fascinated with the red white and blue set that resembled an America\u00a0flag (pictured on the left). If one looks closely (double\u00a0click on the photo for a larger view), it’s\u00a0possible to see\u00a0some of the goodies set out\u00a0for the raffle located to the right of the flag banners.\u00a0Mentioning “raffle,” shortly after I took this picture, I went back to watch my\u00a0boy\u00a0work more on his kite when, rather suddenly,\u00a0our friend Iris, ran up to me to make\u00a0sure I received my final set of raffle tickets because the drawing was about to\u00a0begin.\u00a0Last year, my boy and I did exceptionally well (we\u00a0won several kites!) so I purchased the same number of tickets this year.\u00a0While we didn’t win as many things (not that it matters) we still won! In fact, of the two items I had hoped for the most, one was\u00a0a\u00a0Cody\u00a0box kite. Cody’s are very stable American kites that have been around for a\u00a0long time and were originally invented by Samuel Franklin Cody (no relation to Buffalo Bill). Interestingly,\u00a0these were\u00a0used as a man-lifters (yes, they were big). While Cody’s resemble box kites, they\u00a0have\u00a0an extra set of\u00a0wings that make them look rather bat-like. The Cody I won isn’t\u00a0very big but that doesn’t matter – it still looks cool. Then, my boy had the winning ticket for a “Kite Dynamics Kite Building and Experiment Kit” which can be used to about a hundred different kites, as well as many variations. Again, too cool!<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the raffle, there was also an auction in which we managed to get several more kites at a steep discount from what they would cost retail – we won a box kite, a stunt kite, a Prism Triad, and a “cube kite.” All in all, it was a very inexpensive (but great way) to build our collection.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>Many people usually leave right after the\u00a0auction but, as\u00a0there was still sunlight to fly in, we stayed a bit longer. I managed to get my kite arch up with the help of Dan, current president and one of the founding members of the San Diego Kite Club (they were a bit tangled and he helped me undo the mess). Fortunately, the wind came up enough so that the arch could go up\u00a0for a short while. Unfortunately, the breeze died out\u00a0but that was merely a signal for us to call it a day. After packing up my kite arch, I decided to take a quick video\u00a0of my banners with my carp and my Catherine’s Wheel\u00a0attached.\u00a0Sadly, one of my banner poles broke\u00a0so\u00a0I was only able to put up two\u00a0of my three banners. I was very happy; however, that my Catherine’s\u00a0Wheel which worked like a charm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Once the car was packed up, I took my boy to Belmont Park where we spent the evening on the bumpercars before heading home. As always, I can’t imagine a better way to have some fun than to be with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I didn’t quite finish my post from the other day so here’s “Part 2” – after watching the synchronized kite fliers, the wind picked up a bit and the banners started fluttering a bit more, which is always a good thing at a kite festival. I was particularly fascinated with the red white and … Continue reading New Year\u2019s Day with the San Diego Kite Club, Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[94,28,52,93,103,92,60,70,76,77],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kite-clubs-festivals","category-kites","tag-auction","tag-catherines-wheel","tag-kite-arch","tag-kite-festival","tag-kites","tag-mariners-point","tag-new-years-day","tag-raffle","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-kite-club"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassoonman.com\/kites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}