A good day with Good Friends! Bud and Carol picked us up and we all headed for South Padre Island for the 8th Annual Kite Fest with a stop off for a breakfast taco at Julia’s in Los Fresnos. An omelet in a really big flour tortilla! The flea market was going on in Port Isabell, so we HAD to stop there also. Bud got to buy something!

We have never seen so many kites or so many flown at one time. There were lines of kites, a huge red octopus, big triangles of bright Dacron fabric that stretched across the sky and strings of multi colored fish and sharks! The competition showcased teams from all over the US and Canada. Teams of 4 or 6 were flying choreographed programs set to music- floating or dancing in air, stopping, turning and pirouetting. In one of the single competitions, the single kite flying had 3 tails that were over 100 ft long- twirling and twisting out behind the kite. What a sight! And the teams of folks that hung onto those kite handles also had to dance and pull and move to keep all their lines from being eternally entangled. And to top off the afternoon we stopped off for all you can eat shrimp at the Shrimp Haus. - -- ONE more time!! We were 4 contented souls as we drove home watching the coral sunset- slide down over the city of Harlingen..

If you’re not familiar with where we are in Texas, we are at the same latitude as a line drawn across Florida from Naples to Ft. Lauderdale. Next week we will move north to the Corpus Christi area, which is the same Latitude as Tampa, St. Pete area.