A Smooth Segue With the Squid

This is the squid kite we purchased mere steps from the Shanghai Museum. In my last post, I omitted to mention that the last negotiation had been a little trickier than usual. Once the sale price was agreed upon, the vendor made a great show of acting as though he had been negotiating for the kite alone, and that the actual string would be extra.

Cue second heart attack.

Which of course produced the desired string, though I'm not sure we were any better off for it. The Oregon coast winds broke the reel, and very nearly the string. So we're going to buy a new reel and string here. But we love the squid. The eyes on that thing just crack me up.