Kites and Kowboys

Everyone will be happy to know that at this year's International Kite Festival on the Washington coast, there will be prizes. And these prizes are presented at a banquet. And the banquet has a cowboy theme.

"To add some more fun to this year’s World Kite Museum WSIKF Award’s Banquet and auction, there will be a theme. We’ll all get to be even sillier!

Starting at the door, you’ll be welcomed by the sheriff. Unless you want a fine, you need to wear some piece of Wild West gear. Nothing fancy – could be a bandana around your neck, a cowboy hat or boots or big buckled belt, a sheriff’s badge, handcuffs, fake snake, sunbonnet, Minnie Pearl hat, etc., etc. There will be prizes, so get as elaborate as you want. A jail will be available in case you break the law (not on purpose of course!). So have a friend with funds to get you out of jail.

One of the best parts of the auction is to see someone excited and thrilled about a kite item you donated that they won. The other best thing is getting an item that you had your eye on – and all of this helps support the World Kite Museum.

Watch the web page for pony express online updates. If you have ideas that inexpensively and easily can be incorporated, let us know. No shootouts, no, no, no!"

The saddest part of this event is that after a shooting at the Folklife Festival, the expressed prohibition of firearms at a Kite Festival is completely justified.