Okay, here goes.
1. My favorite kiting event was our local kite festival in Atlantic Beach, NC. The weather was not the best (almost too much wind and the temps turned cold, for NC coast that is). I got to see and visit with a lot of my kiting friends that I only see once or twice a year. I flew in a lot of mass ascensions an even flew my quad line. But more about that later.
2. The special story was about my quad line flying. I started considering quad line when I saw the Vamp Devil in photos from the KTAI. I just had to have one. Got the black now with the red wings in the first shipment to our kite shop. Began to teach myself quad line flying in the spring. Got lots of attention on the beach. And some more Vamp Devils were sold. Talk began n the summer about a group fly of Vamp Devils at the kite festival. I got this wild idea about flying the Vamp Devil to music dressed as Dracula (black cape, red shirt, black pants, vampire teeth). Worked on it this fall. Bear in mind, I'm not the best flyer so the routine was an easy one. Got up the courage and gas the emcee my CD and got ready to perform. The CD wouldn't play on the sound system so I ended up flying randomly in costume. Didn't crash, thank goodness. Will probably try again next year.
Note: Our local festival is the last weekend in October so the Halloween/Dracula theme went over pretty well.
3. Of course our own in October, 2012.
The Blue Ridge Kite Festival in Salem, VA in April, 2012
The Mile High Kite Fly at Beech Mountain, NC on Labor Day, 2012
The ODSKC in June, 2012 at Richmond, VA
The OBSKC at Nags Head, NC in October, 2012
And I'm considering the Kitemaker's Retreat in Maryland in February, 2012 (I may not be good enough to keep up with everyone)
I think that's plenty.
4. I post a few photos to my blog (which is way behind right now) and to Kites Unlimited & BirdStuff, etc. on Facebook (that's our local kite shop).
kjm