Kite Flying on Christmas Eve Day

The day before Christmas we wanted to head out hiking or mountain biking but the major wind changed our plans. We instead took the kite Papa bought when he was visiting us in April, out for a spin.

We started by bundling the kids up in their warmest clothes and then rummaged though our 72hour kit cast offs to find hats and gloves. It was probably in the 40's but the windchill made it feel much colder-- and after all we are not used to the cold. We took Dad's car and because we were just going down the street in our neighborhood, we didn't move the kids booster seats. They thought this was so cool.


The wind was so hard and gusty that it was a bit tricky to keep the kite up.

Anya enjoyed throwing the kite up into the wind.

Aaron had a hard time sharing with the kids at first. Probably because he had to run and untangle the strings when they crashed it.


Talmage ran wild with the camera but managed to get a picture of somebody!

Anya also ran wild and we may have lost her if she wasn't wearing so much pink. She enjoyed the freedom from fences and the wind pushing her so fast she had to keep her legs going or she would fall over.

When given a chance and some instruction, Talmage did a good job flying this tricky kite.

This is Aaron's favorite picture. He took it when we finally retreated to the car to get out of the "freezing" wind. We headed home for hot chocolate but we were all out. It is incredibly difficult to find "family sized" hot chocolate down here. You're lucky to find little packets of SwissMiss that don't have caffeine in it. Only a select few of our friends have even heard of Stephen's hot chocolate. So now our list of things we can't find down here are as follows: maple bars, normal salt and vinegar chips (not potent kettle or Pringle varieties), and Stephen's hot chocolate.