Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
Do you see all those people in this random picture? Do you see that they all have surfboards? And most are beginners. And those waves are frequent and rough. Can you see how this ACTUALLY goes? Mm hmm.
(*TIP: go in the morning. Don't learn at Waikiki!)
They made us wear (totally disgusting, just don't think about it) long sleeve shirts over our swim suits and thank the heavens for that. Unfortunately, we did not get full wet suits.
This is just one little area of the unbelievably itchy, irritated, raw skin on my poor beat up legs when we finished. I just noticed that I also have one under my chin. Awesome.
We couldn't really bring our camera because we were both in the water the whole time (~an hour lesson). Nick was out deeper -- I stayed more shallow because my teacher said the waves were better. Basically, it was less paddling. (OMG the paddling is so freaking hard.) I wasn't a great student, but did sucessfully ride three waves... one of them all the way until it died and I just sat - not flopped - on my board. Verrry proud of that one.
So just about the only thing I did "right" with the whole surfing lessons was decide to go on our last day. Because let's talk about the next morning... holy moly moly-sauce. I have never had my chest/chin/sternum so insanely sore to touch, walking, movement of basically any kind. That reminds me... where's my advil??
Overall, it WAS fun - I can definitely see how it would be really fun if you had some skill. I'd like to go again but I'd plan it better (wet suit and more beginner friendly waves/beach). But to #31 - take a surfing lesson - I wholeheartedly say: CHECK!
Who wants to join me in surfing lesson #2?? (Santa Cruz, CA isn't far and is supposed to be great!)
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