Kite Festival

Today there was a kite festival in DOHS park, which is just down the street from our house. As you all may or may not know, we're big fans of kites (Atticus even brought his awesome bat-kite over from the U.S. with us). Boston has a pretty nice kite event in the summer not too far from our house there, so when we saw that there was going to be a kite festival here, we naturally planned to go. We took over our kite to check out the haps and while it was certainly a smaller affair than the Boston show, it was still a fun little family event in the park. The event was hosted by a local art school and they had homemade paper kites for sale for 20 taka as a fundraiser type thing. We bought one for Atticus and a few for some of the other kids in the park that didn't have any. It wasn't really windy enough to fly kites today though, so mostly people just spent a little while trying to get them in the air and then gave up. Of course Jon used the method of running as fast as he could in a circle around the basketball course to create enough wind to get the bat-kite off the ground and was relatively successful as long as he kept moving. Eventually Jon wore himself out though, and we had to concede to the lack of wind. We talked to the director of the school and he invited us to another (bigger) kite festival in Old Dhaka next week. We think we'll go, but we'll see. In the meantime, here are a few quick photos from today.