From Paddle boards to Kiteboards

Well... looks like I've been slacking off on the blog for a couple days. Things have been going quite well here in Honolulu, we have pretty much everything lined up for when the Aquila gets in today. Friday was certainly an interesting day. We have been starting every morning with some kind of salt water activity, it started with paddle boards, then Dad and Kinsi went to surfboards... This morning will be a kiteboard! Back to Friday, we rented our boards for an hour. after an hour and a half i brought my board back, everyone else was still out. I had my 2 meter trainer kite with me so i walked over to the park and put my kite up for a bit. When i got back to the rental shop about a half hour later, only Kinsi was on the beach. She said Dad and Chef Damien already went back to the hotel, but she can't find Mom in the surf crowd at all. Asking around the rental shop, its clear she's still in the water somewhere, we just can't see her anywhere. We walk over to the lifeguard shack and borrow their binoculars and finally find her. Shes sitting on her paddle board chatting it up with this other lady on a paddle board, not a care in the world that shes now about a mile offshore, in deep water, and getting blown further offshore. Anddddd she's just sitting there. I've already returned my board so i ask around if anyone will go out and get her. Everyone says no way bud im not going out that far!! So me being the genius that I am, I decide to swim out and remind her that her board rental was up two HOURS ago. When I finally made it out to her she got quite upset with me for swimming that far out without a board. Oh well, we're even cause she was out there first :P Anyway, we all made it back to the hotel, where i promptly fell asleep for a few hours even though it was like 11 in the morning. The rest of the day was pretty much spent on boat paperwork in the hotel. Thennnn it was time for dinner. We meet up with Damien again and walk down by the beach to find a place to eat. Since most places had about an hour wait without reservations, we ended up at this place kind of like a mongolian grill. We heard it had an all you can eat salad bar, and you season whatever kind of meat you're having and have them cook it. Well there was oneee smalll detail lost in translation. YOU cook the meet yourself! I am not kidding. They bring you a plate full of raw meat, and you take your plate over to a giant grill and cook it yourself. I wouldn't have thought this would even be possible from a liability stand point, let alone do it yourself kind of service. It was a pretty funny dinner though. Halfway through dinner it occurs to me. If you cook your own food and Bring the food out to the table yourself... do you still tip the waitress? For bringing you a glass of water? Still not sure what to think about that one... After dinner dad looks around, "Hey anybody have some paper? Lets write ourselves out a check!" That was a funny night. The next morning, I was trying to get our second GoPro to update so i stayed behind on the morning surf run. We all worked around the hotel for a while, then drove over to the north shore for a kiteboard lesson. After the lesson we had dinner with Cheech, one of the original Palmyra veterans. A three hour kite lesson sure wears one down so I was definitely glad when we finally made it back to the hotel. Anyway its almost 7 here now and my second lesson is at 8 so I'm going to jump off of here for now.
Quote of the day "Mom. You're grounded" (after her paddle board escapade)

Picture of the day, Sunrise over the Hotels

                                            Until next time,

                                                  Hang loose!