Zilker Kite Festival

This morning, we joined our fellow Austinites at Zilker Park for Kite Fest, held on the first Sunday of March for the last 80 years. Hundreds of kites flew overhead at this family friendly event and brought huge smiles to the buddies' faces. We arrived early and enjoyed flying our own two kites and later, watched the sky fill with them.




The buddies took their turn in a few of the bounce houses and ran around with some of their friends. There were booths available where they could make their own kites, but we saved that for next year.

After a picnic lunch, we headed home, just as the competition events were getting started. Competition events included: a 50-yard dash, the highest angle kite, the steadiest kite, the strongest pulling kite, smallest kite, most unusual kite, and largest kite.




Perhaps the most exciting part of the event for our duo was their first real school bus ride. We parked at a free garage downtown and caught one of the many school bus shuttles running to and from the festival. Ace and Ben both loved being "big kids" on a real yellow school bus.



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