Aerial Stunt Kites flying for the president.

Well, I did it! I tested those pesky big kites...big winds(30mph), big kites this morning. While I was testing, I remembered a few years ago when President Bush was coming to town. Our Mayor wanted a big showing along the streets, encouraging shops to close just to help line the streets.

Okay, there were a couple of protestors which brought the Secret Service to the parade route. I had no political ambitions, so I closed the doors and went down on the beach to fly kites two blocks away from parade route. I bet you've already guessed.....I had ear buds on flying with music. All of a sudden, people were waving by the fence about fifty feet away. I waved back, best as a person can with both hands busy. They waved back again bigger...I waved back ...BIGGER. They waved back and pointed at the sky behind me. I looked. There was a huge orange helicopter with two sharp shooters behind BIG guns mounted on tripods in the helicopter pointed at me. What do I know...so I waved. Then the crowd behind the fence pointed at the sky on the other side. Humph, what do you know, another orange helicopter with mounted guns pointed at me. So again I waved. With loud music in my ears, I did not hear their order to "Put down the kites, NOW!!" This whole process took about 15 minutes and I just kept flying my kites. The President must have gone on past, because all of a sudden the copters swung around and left. All the people by the fence collectively let out a breath and started laughing. I had unwittingly thwarted the Secret Service. In retrospect it is funny!

Ruth Hackman from Aerial Stunt Kites® at 121 Wrigley Dr, Lake Geneva, WI.
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Good through March 15, 2013.