Great surf does not a great surffer make!

After a tasty breakfast today we asked the front desk about a place where I could take surfing lessons.  While the place where I could get lessons was about a hour away, there was a much closer place where I could just get a board and surf!  I though to my self "self, i've already had surf lessons once in my life, sure i can remember most of that!" so I choose the option that was closer and got me in the water faster!  We took a tuk tuk up the road to a rental place owned by a polish woman who spoke little English, thankfully our tuk tuk driver spoke enough German (as did she) to work out the deal for renting the board for a few hours...she stressed the fact that if I broke or lost this board it would cost about 600 euro (which I doubt the bowed was worth!!). But wee took it and hopped back on e tuk tuk for the surf spot.  Now when I say we hopped back in the tuk tuk, what I really mean is we hopped in while I hung onto the board along e outside of the tuk tuk (better be careful with a 600 euro board hanging out of a less then 600 euro tuk tuk!!). Though I felt as if my arm was going to fall off, we managed to get to our surf spot no problem.
Now surfing is much more difficult then I remember...and by that I mean to say that I suck at surfing!  None the less, I spent the next three hours or so fall ing off my board, missing waves, and plain having a good time :p. While my surfing graces weren't really with me today, I did have a very good time.  Heck, I even managed to kinda catch some waves.  All the while dad was videoing me falling over and over again! On the bright side it will make a great bloopers reel and a very good instructional video of what not to do :p. The beach was beautiful and the day nice and sunny so I can't really complain too much...well besides the fact that it was nice and sunny!  For right now I mustn't lay on my back because of my lovely red sun tan!  Oh boy that'll hurt tomorrow!  Someone's going to be sleeping on his stomach tonight...and I'll give you one guess :p. All in all though it was worth it!
While I had planed on coming back to the hotel and body boarding a bit here I decided that more sun on my already red back was outrageous, so I just floated around in the nice cooling pool for a bit.  Boy could I use some aloe!  Who knows what we'll be up to tomorrow, but I hope its in the shade :p

More to come :D



Me hanging out with my surf board and Tuk Tuk!


    
Wipe out!!!


one of my better shots :(