Day 3

Today we went to breakfast with Matt and his roommates Steve and Bobby. It was a place called Sm . It was pretty good.

Went to Waikiki beach after that for a few minutes to see if we could body surf a little better. That didn't work to well. Matt called and gave us the 15 minute warning so we had to head out anyway. We got all ready for the day and Matt picked us up at the hotel while we were trying to make reservations for the busy week we had planned. We ended up not making the reservations then and it was a big mess. The lady was calling us and she sounded upset.

Anyway, Matt took us to Sandys Beach. It was unreal. We thought we were up against some normal sized waves. Little did we know that the waves there were outstanding. Matt tried to warn us but I had no idea what to expect. I have never experienced waves like this. The most memorable instance occured when I tried to catch a wave right at the break. I thought I paddled pretty well but I was actually going backwards. I figured the wave was or something so I kinda stopped. Then I got hit by this wall of water that just flipped me over and threw me pretty much every direction possible. The cable from the boogie board wrapped around my neck, everything went TOTALLY black and I was being slammed into the sand and twisted around so fast that I never had any guage of what way was up and what way was down. It was so bad that I started thinking about the best way to let the beach know that I was so that they could resesutate me. It was bad.

Its not that the waves were terribly big, I mean they were, but it was the vectors of the water that threw me off. It was so much water going in exactly 2 directions but interleaved within eachother all over the place. It was bad. I tried again and failed just as bad. I decided to give up soon after that.

Since we were on that side of the island, we saw the Halona blow hole. That was sweet. Kathy saw a turtle and was very excited to be the only one who saw it. She was still talking about it the next day. Crazy .

Matt took us on a tour of the southeast side of the island after that and it was pretty slick. There were some really nice areas as well as some amazing sites. Of course, I didn't have my camera on me so I didn't get to capture them. Damn.

After that, Kathy and I went out to a very nice dinner at Halekulani's House without a Key. It was great. We were right on the beach. There was some live entertainment. Food was great. Drinks were great. I got some pictures so I will post them ASAP. Kathy and I took a nap and waited for Matt to call us about the night out.

That night we went to Tsunami's Bar. It was alright. Matt was already drunk. It was fine. We were a little nervous about the skydiving event we had planned for the next day. So we only stuck around there for a short time. I had 2 shots and a beer and we called it a night.

It was 2 AM and we had an 11 AM appointment at Skydive Hawaii