Last Thursday Drew and I took a break from home repair and took our annual trip to St. Mark’s lighthouse, the site of Drew’s sweet proposal.
We stopped at the gift shop and Drew bought a $5 kite. We got to the lighthouse and Drew sat on the steps and assembled it.
It was a windy day, so it didn’t take long for our plastic monarch to take flight.
The butterfly flew pretty high.
And then, it crashed.
Into gator “infested” waters.
While fishing out the kite, a real monarch butterfly fluttered by.
We fished the kite out and dried it out a bit.
Maybe this time would be better.
It got pretty high.
Drew passed the string off to me and let me fly it for a bit.
I flew it for a minute, then passed it back before it took another nose dive.
Not long after I passed it back, it decided to revisit the water.
We dried it off again.
We gave it a rest for awhile, and took a walk and enjoyed the scenery.
We came back to give it one more go.
It flew REALLY high this time.
I got another go at it too.
Then came the task of reeling the thing back in.
With 200 feet of twine, it took some time to get it down.
Finally, we got it down without crashing it!
What a fun day. I love you, baby.
