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June 4, 2006: Slow down you’re not on the mainland

June 7, 2006 on 8:52 pm | In Uncategorized |

We lazed around the villa in the morning, drinking coffee and mentally preparing me for the surf lesson my cousin had booked the day before.
My cousin Kelly, brother Mike, sister Cor and her husband Kent, my sister-in-law Jen and Cor’s godmother Cindy had a 1pm lesson with a Billabong school called Surf Sister.
I was a little out of my mind because as much as I wanted to surf, I had always sworn the only place I would ever do it was Lake Superior where the water was fresh and shark-free. My sister told me we’d be fine since we’d only be in waist-deep for the lesson but clearly she has never seen Jaws. If she had, she would have know nthat most shark attacks happen ten feet out in three feet of water.
Anywhoooo the lesson started with some verbal hooo-ha, moved to the beach where we practiced pop-up’s, and then into the water where, amazingly, no one was eaten. It was a ton of fun. Tiring, but soooooo fun, and almost everyone stood on their boards. Cor was most awesomely successful, riding one wave all the way in to shore.
I got pretty obsessed with Surf Sister when the lesson was over so Cindy and I drove back into Tofino to buy me a hoodie at their store.
By the time dinner rolled around all the surfers were starving. It turns out you don’t have to be any good to work up an appetite surfing. Just trying not to get completely pounded by the water is enough.
During dinner (again in Cor and Kent’s villa) we hooked the various digital cameras up to the TV and checked out the pictures from the week-end, then my whole family hiked out to Sunset Point -to freeze our asses off and watch the sun set.
Amy