Hawaii

So I've been in Hawaii for my fifth day now. The first day Lane picked me up from the airport and we immediately went to his work for cheap food and drinks and then met up with his girlfriend Cam and his other room mates. We came home afterwards and continued the fun until late in the night. The next day Lane had school for a few hours so I went with his room mates Michelle and Nathan to breakfast and then to Sandies where there was a gnarly shore break. It was so gnarly I actually didn't even go in. Instead I layed out for about five hours and got a pretty good sun burn. We met up with lane and Cam after that and got some good authentic Hawaiian food. I knew my friend Cara was back in the states somewhere after her time teaching in Korea but I wasn't sure if it was Hawaii or even what island she would be on. I ended up tracking her new number down and got ahold of her and she came to hang out. It was way good to see her. I missed my German buddy. The next day Lane, Nathan and I went to Waikiki to go surfing...only, I was still so burnt that I decided to hang out and walk around the touristy places and check out the tourist girls. After Lane and Nathan picked me up we headed to BC and got some good burritos and took a 3 hour nap until Cam got back from work. Then lane and I went shopping at Nordstrom Rack and I got a nice collared shirt and some new board shorts. Then we went to the store and got some Ahi so sear when we got back. Ended up drinking beers again and Lanes other room mate Chris was around with his squeeze too. Cara also came over again and hung out for most of the night. We were trying not to party too hard cause the next day we wanted to leave early to go to the North Shore to see Ashlin and his family as well as try out surfing on long boards a little bit. We did end up getting out of the house about 9:00 the next morning and on the way we stopped at Costco to get more cheap clothes. We spent a little time at Pipeline to check out how gnarly big it was....especially that day I guess. We then went to a place called Leftovers to swim and hang out on the beach a littile bit but when we got there we immediately noticed a surf board washing in with no body attatched to it and became worried with his friend standing anxiously on the beach. We all ran up the emankment closer to the houses so we could see better and one of the residents came out to help with binoculars. A call was made for a rescue and about 3 minutes after the swimmer was spotted. He slowly made his was across the rip back towards shore, swimming slowly to conserve energy. The rescue call was canceled and we could continue our time swimming. We ate Thai food at a local restaurant that was really good. Helped me with my jealousy for not being in Thailand with my brother. Then we went and met up with Ashlin and his pregnant wife and three kids. He looked really good and happy and he is definitely doing well for himself. We took the girls and a bunch of surf boards and went to a good shore break for a couple hours. I had a lot of trouble with this certain area because of its strong rip tide and spent most of my time paddling....wearing myself out.
After we were all spent with surfing we went back to Ivy's mom's house (Ivy is Ashlin's wife) who lives right by them and we had a BBQ....that was nice. Everyone was originally from Bend...big bend reunion. Anyway, we headed back to Honalulu after that and watched some show on discovery channel about the earth which is pretty tight, then hit the sack. Now I'm up early filling this bitch out. Lane has to go to school for a while today so I have to figure out what I'm gonna do for the better part of four hours. I figure I'll try to get ahold of Cara again in hopes that she doesn't have a lot planned for today. Otherwise I'll just go on a walk to the part of town that's closest to Lane's house and bum around.

Cool, I'm outta here