Having never been to Washington before, I arrived on Friday, a couple days before our Sunday, March 28th move-in date. I wanted to spend a couple days getting acquainted with the city and the transit system. My girlfriend and I took a stroll over to the Department of Commerce building on 14th & Constitution, NW, where I would be interning during the quarter. When we arrived, we saw thousands of people surrounding the Washington Monument with an unimaginable amount of kites in the sky, so we decided to check it out.
At first, we chalked it up as just a normal weekend on the Washington Monument in the gorgeous spring weather (57 ° and sunny). We thought that kite flying was just something that everyone did around here. But after browsing around for a while, we came across a flag and literature that read, “44th Annual Smithsonian Kite Festival, CRAFTed for Flight.” At this moment, it all made sense.
We found out that the annual kite festival, sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates and the National Air and Space Museum, is a pretty big event in the area. It features handmade kite competitions, kite displays and demonstrations by professional kite flyers. Other activities include children learning to write their names in Japanese characters and in unity with the National Aquarium, children can build kites that look like stingrays.
This is a great date or family event and something everyone should see at least once!
AAM
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