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Bright Kites, Big City: Smithsonian Kite Festival
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Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post
IT MAY SEEM too Mary Poppins for the average urbane D.C. native, but the Smithsonian Kite Festival is really amazingly beautiful.

Head down on Saturday, March 29, either to watch or to register to fly. You'll have to avoid stepping on any children (or maybe you can put the small ones on strings and launch them into the air), but the kites are worth seeing.

Cherry Blossoms come but once a year; you might as well get some joy out of them — along with all the frustration you feel when trapped behind yet another oblivious tourist at a Metro turnstile.

» Smithsonian Kite Festival, National Mall at the Washington Monument; Registration begins 10 a.m., free; 202-633-3030. (Smithsonian)

Photo by Marvin Joesph/The Washington Post

Posted by Fiona Zublin at 2:31 PM on March 28, 2008
Tagged in Smithsonian , The District , Top Stops , Top Stories
Comments (1)

  • If my preferred Democrat isn't the nominee, let me just say that I certainly will not vote for Obama!

    Posted by Diane | March 28, 2008 9:46 PM
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