Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Soul Surfer

There's nothing quite so spectacular as being on a board in the middle of the ocean with the sun setting on your right, the moon rising on your left, and the beautiful city of Waikiki lighting up behind you. About two weeks ago a group of my friends and I drove into town to witness just that. Carlos, Cristiano, Nikki, and I hit the South shores for a pretty calm surf and also to have some fun in town. We got there about 530 or so, and paddled out to wait at the break with a bunch of other people, but as it got cooler outside more and more people left until we were almost alone out there. After a few hours we were exhausted and just floated on our boards to see the meeting of the blue and pink horizons. Someone was getting married on the beach so there were candles all around and live music that we could hear all the way out on the water :) When it got dark we paddled in, showered off, and went on a restaurant hunt. We found this cool mexican grill called La Cucaracha where they let us wear Sombrero's while we ate. It was epic. Such good food, we got so full! Then we walked around and let the boys do some shopping along the surfer strip where they have Billabong, RVCA, etc. It was an amazing day, and a crazy cool night, probably one of my most memorable here on this island... Love it here.

3 comments:

  1. oh man...so fun...and to have hours to do whatever you choose to do? priceless! i'm on day one of "how do i figure out what I want to do!" new leaf to turn over in my life...discovering me all over again. have fun on your island!

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  2. Did the menu give a GOOD explanation as to how it got it's name? La Cucaracha = the cockroach in Spanish. Hmmmm?

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  3. my thoughts exactly dad...hey paris, while you're killing time in a billabong shop, i'm lookin for a long sleeve shirt they used to make that said Billies from hell...maybe they'd still carry it in hawaii...

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