kites

who flies kites???

May 5 is Boy's day in Japan. The custom is to fly a kite on that day! I don't remember the exact detail of this holiday but...

Any kite fans out there???:D

I LOVE flying kites!! The windier the better! I haven't flown one since I was in high school, when I used to fly them all the time on the weekends. What a great tradition.

I did when I was a kid........ :( But that was so long ago, I don't remember......

i can never get them to stay up.:p

when I was younger I used to all the time, I haven't flown one in a few years, its relaxing though, good fun

I've never experienced kite flying myself, but many times I've been told to "go fly a kite!" :rolleyes: :D

I love flying kites. I used to have a 200 yd line when I was a child (They aren't allowed that long :(). My dad used to make the kites himself- we didn't buy it.

When I was in Washington some years ago, we bought a kite and flyed it at the beach. There was a kite festival and there were the most gorgeous kites. For me it was the first time I had one with these steering lines (I hope I express myself right). Unfortunately we broke it during that holiday but it was so much fun:)

If I lived at a place like that- lots of wind and space- I would be flying kites all the time.

We all love kites here! My huuby and kids used to play with a "sprts-kite": with 2 steering lines. They could make it turn sin the air several times!!

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but many times I've been told to "go fly a kite!"

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Slick,

Me too, but not exactly in THOSE words! :rolleyes: :p

I do! I do! I do! I didn't know that May 5 was a holiday in Japan too! I knew that it was a holiday in Mexico. Its called Cinco de Miyo--hope I spelled that right-- It means May 5!:) Its the celebration of their independence. Thats kinda cool. I remeber on my 6 birthday up in Maine a person gave me a Dragon kite and let me fly it off a deck at Old Orchard Beach. Its so ironic that May 5 is my b-day and thats the holiday that you were talking about!:) I guess its true that you learn something new every day!

http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/Hiroshi...tivals/42.html


My brother has a kite in his truck at all times!!!!

I used to fly a kite off the dam that over looked a golf course.
I'd take my dog and we''d walk the length of the dam flying a kite.

One day the kite went down on the golf course and I was so embarassed that I dropped the string and walked away...

I am sure that didn't make the golfers happy....;)

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I was wrong....On boy's day you fly a CARP!!!!!;)