Traffic jam

Traffic jam (courtesy - mom!)    Kite surfer on a huge jump. Another photo courtesy of mom!   

Photos courtesy of mom 🙂

We walk by the beach and still can’t believe we live here, even after 8 months. Dave and I had a “date” tonight while Mom and Pete played with Sam. As far as your eye could see, there were sails of every kind out catching the wind. People were grilling up their dinners. Kids played in the sand. Adults floated around in the water, soaking up the last rays of sun. We walked about 3.5 miles around the Lanikai loop and back to Buzz’s for appetizers and drinks. It was really nice to just walk around, wonder how one can afford to live in Lanikai, smell all the great scents of island life, and dream about where we’ll finally settle. This place has a strange conflicting energy about it. On the one hand you want to just chill on the beach. That seems to be the totally natural thing to do. But the weather and the water beckon you to explore sports you’d never heard of before, not to mention ever dreamed you could actually learn to do. (For example, a significant portion of me actually believes I could learn to kitesurf.) I think I’ll start with windsurfing -it seems less likely that I’d launch myself irretrievably into the air with such a big board attached 🙂 When those kitesurfers sail through the air, you really wonder how they get back down…with my luck I’d end up on a distant island. I guess I’ll carry ID in my pocket… 🙂

One Comment

  1. Gramma Oli 25 March, 2007

    That’s a really, really nice blog entry tonight!

    As we sat on the beach this afternoon, before we went to your house to “tackle” Sammy for playtime, I was finally catching some of those kite surfers in my lens as they reached the very top of their jumps. It’s hard to catch them at all — they are just about out of range of my telephoto lens so I have to be really steady.

    Today was a great day, though, with perfect light, and many times I thought, “Alli really needs to get an instructor and get going on this. She could do it!!”

    PS – I think I recognize the photo you have up there! 🙂 Hope your readers will open it to full size — quite colorful and filled with energy, as you say.

    Love you!
    Gramma Oli

    Note: The photo is courtesy of mom!

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