Crazy Dayz

Yesterday was a crazy day.

So I woke up and said to Jessica - "Let's go hike stairway to heaven!"

She said - "OK," so we went!

Here we are hiking up to the stairs and getting kinda lost back in the lush vegetation. But we found the stairs, and made it part of the way up, before a security guard showed up. He had other plans - and a bright shiny shrill whistle - so we decided to comply and come back down. He was real nice, and showed us a better way back through the dense bamboo. He was even nice enough to tell us the hours he worked, and when might be a better time to endevor upon the hike.

But being busted, we returned home with only slightly sore muscles and were somewhat grateful to be spared the further beating of that rather tiring trail.

So we took an amazing nap, woke up and deep cleaned the house, and I took off with Chris for some last moments of day-light surfing.

The last couple of sessions out at Crouching Lion have been awesome. The winds have been down, and in the evening its been getting down right glassy out there. And with the head-high swell we've been getting its made for the prettiest little break I've ever surfed. I snagged a classic ride - one for the scrapbooks. And at the end of the evening took the last one in over the reef. But it was kinda shallow (as in only lots of exposed coral heads) and my back fin snagged the reef and I got gently tossed into the water and scored a few spines from our black spiny urchin friends in the foot. (See picture)

But, I braved on, and paddled in to shower and join Jessica as we went to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner round two - sponsered in part by Ted's Bakery and their $5 pie sale! We went to Brad and Kerri's and they had just pulled a beautifully cooked turkey out of the oven - seasoned with Jamaican Jerk! So we had our Jamaican Jerky Turkey, giant costco baked potatoes with cheese and bacon-bits (the real kind), stuffing, white corn, and pumkin haupia pie! Oh my.