Lincoln City Kite Festival

I’ve always wanted to go to a kite festival. So when I saw that there was one about four hours away I decided to book an Airbnb for us to go see it for a short weekend. 

It took about four hours to drive to Lincoln city. It’s a beautiful drive to the coast. 

Our hotel was fun because it had beach access and a swimming pool and hot tub and fire pits you could purchase Smore‘s kit’s to roast marshmallows. They also had a thing where each morning they had three wooden mermaid figurines hidden around the property and guests could try to find them to win a mermaid T-shirt or 10% off their next stay.

When we got there early Saturday evening Thomas took Brooklyn to the pool and I took Wells out to the beach where we went on a nice long walk and he slept in the Ergo. 

That evening we found a cute little Mexican restaurant to eat at. After dinner Brooklyn and I got s’mores kit and roasted marshmallows around one of the outdoor fire pits.

The next morning we headed to the kite festival. It was so amazing and better than I even expected. The Kite flyers fly the kites to music. It’s  such an art and looks almost like dancing. There was one group of women who can’t even practice together but were able to perform together in perfect synchrony. There’s one person in a group of kite flyers who will yell out the commands then the rest of the group follows.

The festival had lots of activities for kids including a kite making station, facepainting, and a kids kite parade that Brooklyn participated in.  They gave each kid an autograph book and if you got 16 of the kite artists signatures then you got a free kite and some free sunglasses. The weather was windy and sunny so just perfect. We definitely want to go back next year and make this a yearly tradition.

They had something called “the running of the bolls” where they attach a parachute type thing to you and you race other people a short distance. Brooklynsnd Thomas tried it out.





The kites the kids made actually fly really well!