Kite flying

It's friday and the weekend with a bank holiday on monday (kathari deutera) is ahead.
The plans for this weekend is to visit my father's in law, home at Peloponissos and spend the weekend there with eleni. It will be the first time I go there for this bank holiday. Time to see how people there joy the day.

For me, the basic thing on this weekend, especially on monday is the kite flying (χαρταετός).When i was a child, the kite flying was something serious for all the boys in the neighborhood. The period was keeping about 2 weeks. Almost 2 weeks before kathari deutera, kites were flying and there was a competition among children whose kite is the best and fly higher. That was the purpose. The higher the better. I wasn't so good on this as my two brothers were. They were very good on making paper kites. Colour paper were used, yellow and red the prefered ones. We were using stubbles, light weight and about 3 to 4 marline clews. Other times...

Nowadays, we see kites only on monday. Especially here in Athens, none fly a kite before monday. Children, guess, prefer play this on their PC game console.Apart this, as last minute people, all want to buy a kite on monday and almost none makes his own by his own hands.Its like food, ready made food. Anyway, i won't be more crabby.

Weekend is coming, hope enjoy it and make my kite fly as higher as it can.Hope wind helps our efforts.Ι Love this game.