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Trains and Kites Saturday in San Francisco

·San Francisco, California·#bay area#family#trains#fort-mason#kite-festival
A smiling person in a brown jacket sits with a child next to a red wooden structure.

A double-header today: trains in the morning, kites in the afternoon.

The little one rode the miniature railway through the redwoods, first squeezed in next to Dad, then in Mom's lap. The gondola cars are just big enough for one adult and one kid, and the train was full — a whole line of families in open cars winding under the trees.

Then we drove over to the Marina Green for the Family Day Kite Festival at Fort Mason. Completely different weather over there: hard blue sky, wind coming straight off the bay, which is of course the point. Big inflatable kites tethered along the field — a goldfish, a flying pig, a narwhal with a long segmented tail — and the little one took off running across the grass toward all of it, striped pants and all. Angel Island sitting out in the bay behind the whole thing.

Windblown hair on everybody by the end. The narwhal was still up when we left.

An adult and a child sit on small red train cars with a forest in the background.A miniature train filled with people, including adults and children, rides on tracks through a dense forest.A smiling adult sits beside a child in a small wooden train car, with a large red train and tracks behind them.A green field full of people and colorful kites flying under a blue, cloudy sky during a festival.A child walks in a grassy park with several large, shaped kites flying, a festival banner, and distant hills.A smiling woman holds a child against a bright blue sky with clouds and kites flying in the distance.

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