Catch a Wave and You're Sitting on Top of the World!

Catch a Wave and You're Sitting on Top of the World!

These pictures say it all. Monday was the day Ian had been waiting for since we started planning this trip. Maui Wave Riders would be the place where they would take their two hour surfing lesson. Well, honestly, the lesson consisted of about 30 seconds of survival techniques and the next one hour and 59 minutes and 30 seconds consisted on trying to catch a wave. What a great lesson on perseverance! Anything worth having is worth waiting for... wait and ride, wait and ride, the cousins did... I didn't understand the whole "rash guard" thing until the end of the day, and then I wish they had had rash guards for their whole entire bodies. That's kind of like life too isn't it. We wish we could rap up our kids in a protective cocoon to protect them from life's bumps and bruises, but it is a valuable lesson when we have to keep picking ourselves up, over and over again.

Well, persevere they did! They rode those boards in and out from shore, watching the developing waves and choosing the ones that they thought would take them on the most successful rides. By the end of the day, I am not sure who was more exhausted our delightfully entertaining instructor Al or our whole gang. At first Colin had been the holdout. He didn't want to spend the time or money to take surfing lessons, since we were only going to be in Maui for a short time. A new hobby for life? Maybe not, we would never know unless we tried!