...But you can learn to Surf

Mahalo for a wicked awesome day! I slept in this morning... well at least I wasn't up at 5:30... 8am is perfectly reasonable.

I did want to get an early start because I wasn't sure how parking would be like... so I was out the door by 9am and driving into Waikiki which turned out to be a pretty great experience, I even managed to get a parking space no problem.

First order of business was a surfing lesson. I figured go early but when I got there there were already tons of people in the water, surfing. There were three options $40 group lesson (<5 people), $60 semi-private (2 people) or $100 private. I went with the group rate thinging mmeph, I'm doing this for fun... so they asked me to wait around until they had enought for the group.

About 1/2 hour later (of relaxing on the beach) they said it was time to go... as it turned out no one else came for the lessons so I was going to get private lessons! WICKED... in retospect had there been four more people I'm not sure how productive or beneficial it would have been for me. So the lessons were great and I slowly progressed from surfing in the sand to the baby slow waves to catching my own waves. There are two very firm things about this experience, Surfing is equal parts fun and exhausting!

Sorry no surfer girl photos... Anna was working today and my camera was safe (in a safe) back on shore. So instead here is a photo of Duke the famous surfer and olympic medalist. The surf lessons place is just behind the statue.

After the lessons I sat out on Waikiki beach and enjoyed the semi-sun (it was fairly cloudy day today) and waited to be dry enough to get back in the car! I picked up some awesome frozen yogurt (who would have thought plain would be so good!) I stopped on the way back to the apartment for some wicked awesome Korean BBQ for lunch.

I snapped a whole bunch of pics of Waikiki but this is my fav... probably because almost no one is in it!

I then drove back to the apartment to enjoy my delicious lunch. I had high hopes for my afternoon but after my shower I took a nap!

Anna came home around 3pm and it was furniture shopping time! We hit up this awesome place that has some killer furniture (and a third floor where you can pick up a couch for $21K!) There were a few key pieces that Anna liked (couch, chair, table with chairs, and a TV stand) more shopping still to do but at least there are more options then "Island" furniture.

We wanted to grab a quick dinner because as we had tickets to a play tonight so we asked the guy if there were a great place to eat near by... you will never guess but there is a full restaurant and crazy awesome wine bar IN the furniture store! It would be like shopping at Leons and there being a De Vino style restaurant in there! They had a full wine bar where you can put money on a card and try one ounce tastings of all these different kinds of wine. I was driving so no fun for me but it looks awesome. Thankfully the food was was great and half the price of our crap dinner last night. Anna and I shared a wicked beet and taro salad that had great honey balsamic dressing and sliders and fries! The fries had this really great BBQ shake-shake on them that was out of this world!

We hit Safeway because I'm dying to try making Rice Krispies squares with the Cinnamon Bun flavoured marshmellows... should be interesting! We then went back to the apartment and walked to the musical that Anna had bought tickets for... It's a high school production of In the Heights. It totally blew me away... I still can't believe it was a high school production! The sets were amazing, the singing spectacular and everything was so professional. In the program each of the actos got to select a quote and this one inspired the title for this post - "You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf!" - John Kabat-Zinn

Another fantastic day and night. Tomorrow North Shore here we come!

 

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