Howen #2 Visits Hawaii
Lanikai beach in Kailua - one of my favorite beaches.
This is a picture of us at the Pali lookout. It is a stopping point on the Pali highway on the way to Kailua. Kailua is about 7 miles away from where I live.
This is the beach out at the North Shore that we were on - Sunset Beach
About to start getting into the boats (i am in green)
A shot of my paddling team on the boat
This is what the outrigger canoe looks like that we race.
To see all the pictures from Memorial Weekend go to
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=56921149287508727/l=101428399/g=32613520/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
So my little fun friend Elizabeth Bowen visited me for Memorial weekend, officially my second visitor from the mainland. She warned me that all she wanted to do was sit on the beach. So I planned a fun filled weekend of traveling to all the best beaches on the island. We saw Makapu’u where there was a crash landing of a sky diver sort (cant remember the name, but the guys that fly off of the cliffs). They were tandem jumping and landed on top of the guy next to us on the beach. I hope the poor guy got his money back.
Sunday started with my Outrigger race. It sucked. Flat out. There are pictures. We did a mixed race (3 men and 3 women) and one of the guys on my boat was not in shape to do the race. The race is approx. 3 minutes long and he stopped paddling 20 seconds into it. So we basically lost one of the guys paddling and had to drag him to the finish line. Not to mention he was about 250 so when he stopped paddling, the boat started to drop. We didn’t get last, but we sucked, and as competitive as I am, I wasn’t happy. I told my coach I didn’t want to race with him anymore.
Then we went to Waikiki where we sat on the most crowded beach on the island. The only interesting part of the day was when we were interviewed for a documentary. These two hot guys walked up to us to ask us if we could answer some questions for a movie they were doing. The topic – Why women don’t like porn films. We both thought it was a total line, but answered anyway because 1) they were cute and 2) because one of them had a really cute Australian accent. I will be sure and let you all know when the film comes out. And for the adults reading this (especially our parents) we were very G rated, which is so unlike us.
Sunday we went to the North Shore. Nothing exciting went on except we had Mexican food. Not nearly as good as Houston, but it wasn’t bad.
Monday – I cant really remember what we did, but Tuesday we went to Lanikai, now my new favorite beach, with my friend Andrew and his girlfriend Kelly. Again, nothing exciting happened, except that Elizabeth got a good tan to take back to San Fran with her.
All in all it was a low key weekend, and if you are wondering why there are no party stories, it is because we didn’t go out. So unlike EB. We spent too much time in the sun that we were in bed early every night. But I absolutely loved having her here, and I cant wait for her to come back.
This is a picture of us at the Pali lookout. It is a stopping point on the Pali highway on the way to Kailua. Kailua is about 7 miles away from where I live.
This is the beach out at the North Shore that we were on - Sunset Beach
About to start getting into the boats (i am in green)
A shot of my paddling team on the boat
This is what the outrigger canoe looks like that we race.
To see all the pictures from Memorial Weekend go to
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=56921149287508727/l=101428399/g=32613520/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
So my little fun friend Elizabeth Bowen visited me for Memorial weekend, officially my second visitor from the mainland. She warned me that all she wanted to do was sit on the beach. So I planned a fun filled weekend of traveling to all the best beaches on the island. We saw Makapu’u where there was a crash landing of a sky diver sort (cant remember the name, but the guys that fly off of the cliffs). They were tandem jumping and landed on top of the guy next to us on the beach. I hope the poor guy got his money back.
Sunday started with my Outrigger race. It sucked. Flat out. There are pictures. We did a mixed race (3 men and 3 women) and one of the guys on my boat was not in shape to do the race. The race is approx. 3 minutes long and he stopped paddling 20 seconds into it. So we basically lost one of the guys paddling and had to drag him to the finish line. Not to mention he was about 250 so when he stopped paddling, the boat started to drop. We didn’t get last, but we sucked, and as competitive as I am, I wasn’t happy. I told my coach I didn’t want to race with him anymore.
Then we went to Waikiki where we sat on the most crowded beach on the island. The only interesting part of the day was when we were interviewed for a documentary. These two hot guys walked up to us to ask us if we could answer some questions for a movie they were doing. The topic – Why women don’t like porn films. We both thought it was a total line, but answered anyway because 1) they were cute and 2) because one of them had a really cute Australian accent. I will be sure and let you all know when the film comes out. And for the adults reading this (especially our parents) we were very G rated, which is so unlike us.
Sunday we went to the North Shore. Nothing exciting went on except we had Mexican food. Not nearly as good as Houston, but it wasn’t bad.
Monday – I cant really remember what we did, but Tuesday we went to Lanikai, now my new favorite beach, with my friend Andrew and his girlfriend Kelly. Again, nothing exciting happened, except that Elizabeth got a good tan to take back to San Fran with her.
All in all it was a low key weekend, and if you are wondering why there are no party stories, it is because we didn’t go out. So unlike EB. We spent too much time in the sun that we were in bed early every night. But I absolutely loved having her here, and I cant wait for her to come back.
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