Thursday, April 30, 2009

KITE CITY -- WINDY WEIFANG


KITE FACTORY.

Here are some kite photos, sadly lacking from the long previous post. Hope you enjoy the kites. I bought the big eagle one ABOVE, and Dana bought the large dragon/bird-like one...
Cost: about $10. American Dollars.






LOBSTER KITES...









Kite flying cord or strings are rigged to these large, fishing-like reels. They can get a lot of cord on them to fly them high. Oh, by the way, you never see children flying kites...only old men fly these here, because young men and boys cannot afford them... When the boys are finally old enough that they can finally afford a kite, they take advantage of their lost childhood and go fly a kite.


Butterflies are so beautiful on kites. They can really fly high.



(Click on photo for full enlargement to see these kites close up...)



Some cool collector, mini kites, which actually fly...

Kites are made into almost everything... See the green dragon kite. That's the one Grandma Darling wanted, but a larger size.

Dana found the gift shop outside. Check out all the stuff...

1 comment:

Suzanne said...

Beautiful! It's too bad that kids don't get to enjoy it with less-extravagant kites, though. Makes me want to go fly one...