Surfing in Maui

Monday, December 5, 2011.
Today Chip and Kylie took surfing lessons at Maui Wave Riders. V-Man was the instructor and Kylie got along great with him.  I played photographer and stayed on the beach.  After some instruction on the beach everyone paddled out to the bouy and waited their turn to be called out to the waves and assisted by V-Man into the "perfect" wave.  Kylie made two attempts and stood up each time.  I will have to add the good photos later as my netbook does not have a CD rom drive and the best photos were taken by the professional photographer (not Teri).  Chip did VERY well since this was his third time to go surfing and he needed very little help from the instructor. He can definitely Hang Ten!

After surfing we went to Annie's Island Ice and ordered Shaved Ice.  I split one with Chip with coconut ice cream on the bottom and pineapple and orange dreamcicle syrup on the ice.  Kylie had strawberry ice cream with Tiger Blood syrup on her ice.  Quite refreshing!  We walked up the road to take pics under the huge Banyan tree in Lahaina afterwards.

For our afternoon we took a drive along the coast to the North end of West Maui and stopped at scenic points and even had our picnic lunch at a beautiful overlook.  We hiked down to the blowhole but the surf wasn't high enough to create the best spurts but we did see two good ones.  Got back to the condo around 5 p.m. and walked out to the beach to see the sunset. Jayson and Jaclyn were able to see us playing in the surf at sunset from the cabana webcam.  We fixed a pasta alfredo and peas with salad for dinner and Kylie just tucked herself into bed at 7:45 p.m.  I KNEW she was gonna be one tired little Keiki today!!  Happy Monday!