SUP Saturday

Lots to catch up on today. We had a very busy weekend doing various things together and separately.

On Saturday, Tyler and I met up with Hannah do some some SUP in Santa Monica. This would our first time trying SUP in the ocean (Tyler & me) and it was definitely challenging. We received instructions on how to enter and exit the ocean with our boards so naturally I wipe out twice trying to enter.

The ocean was calm and it was low tide but the water movement took some time to get used to. Our instructor gave me some good tips to keep my balance which helped a lot but I still got dunked a lot.

We paddled out to a buoy by the Santa Monica pier about 3/4 mile out where we saw lots of dolphins and sea lions. I got to enjoy views of the beach from a different perspective too.

Paddling back to shore was very trying since it seemed like we kept paddling and getting nowhere. The instructor said it would seem like that but in a few minutes if we looked back at the buoy, we would be farther away so he was right.

I used a lot more muscles doing the ocean SUP so I'm still sore. :) Hannah has some more groupons for SUP good till next year so I imagine I'll be trying this again and then give my final opinion.

So enjoy the photos courtesy of Hector waterproof camera....

Hannah & Tyler

SUP video

I forgot that I shot some video while in Hawaii. Here is Josh paddling in the lagoon at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Now that I know he can do it, we can try it out in California.  :)

Hawaii Vacation

Hey everyone! Just got back from a terrific 5 day vacation in Waikiki!! Unfortunately, H wasn't able to join us but next time for sure! So the kids and I had a nice relaxing and fun time with great weather. We pretty much stuck to California time so we would beat the breakfast rush and enjoy a leisurely meal and walk around before most of the people were up.

We were able to explore the area and find some nice, reasonably priced ramen places that the kids enjoyed and a massive food court that has almost every imaginable cuisine there. :) I intended to take pics of our food but we were always starving so that never happened.

The kids went SUPing in the lagoon twice and it was lots of fun. Josh got to try SUP for the first time and did a good job. Maybe he will want to try again here.

Did some uploading and here is the Flickr set so far.