Hello again.
The last couple days have been great.
The previous photos show Krista, Mindin, and I having a real blast. We started off with a nice breakfast at a cafe down the street from my hostel. After the quick bite we drove up to meet Mindin. From there I got my first surfing lesson. I have to say im really out of shape. I was tired about 10 min into paddling. Good news though, I got up on my third attempt! My body gave out from a rash/exhaustion after about a hour or so.
From there we went out for lunch at a really nice place called Blu. Excellent food and drinks. From the pictures you can see it was on the ocean.
After lunch we checked out the giant Buddha statue and hit the beach again. Mindin and I filmed Krista hit some really nice waves. Ive got it all on my camcorder.
After the surfing we went to the grocery store and grabbed some food and drinks. Krista cleans a multi-million dollar beach home. Luckily for us the residents were not in, shenanigans ensue. Some of Krista's friends from her work came over. We chilled to music/TV and drank a bit.
Once I got back to the hostel I got the pleasure of watching a gecko hunt a massive spider. This thing had to be like 4 inches long. It moved like a muppet, all bouncy. There was also about 50 baby cockroaches all over the ceiling. By the time we woke up the next day the geckos had ate them all. Hurray for lizards.
Yesterday I went body surfing. A cool guy named Rich came out with me. He hurt his foot a couple nights earlier so it was just me trying to body surf it out. I put on my snorkel gear and checked it out. After about 30 min of wading around the shore waves started to really pick up. I waited for the perfect wave to come in a swam hard with it. Lets just say it felt like a football team was punching me in the face for about 5 seconds. Sadly I lost my snorkel gear. *Cry* All that was left was the mouth piece. The sheer force of the wave pulled it off my head, my teeth held on to the mouth piece. Life lesson #1. Don't wear snorkel gear when trying to body surf.
Anyways that didn't slow me down I went over and over. After about 15 waves I needed to slow down. Got my butt kicked, a ton of fun. Rich and I cruised around about 4 other beaches(1 nude) then went back and had lunch.
After lunch we drove south down to the ritzy part of Hawaii. You should see the beaches down there. So nice. (No Caribbean nice, but close) Again we body surfed for a solid 2 hours. The waves werent nearly as high as the ones in Paia but nonetheless you can get hit pretty hard. The 2nd last wave I ground right into the beach with my shoulder, felt like sandpaper up my left side.
After the beach I went back to the hostel and watched a flick, read, listen to my ipod for a hour then slept.
Today I am going to "The Crater". The crater is at the top of the mountain and is like the moon. Saturday im going down to Jaques to party with Krista and Mindin. Saturday is goat farm day. You choose your goat, hiking for a couple miles, milk them, then test the dairy! Sunday night we are going to a really nice Hotel for Mindin's birthday.
Until next time!
D.
More to come
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