good evening. meet team aoi koike. they are staying on the north shore and are preparing for the upcoming contest at pipeline….. these girls rip!! good luck girls…

this is aoi today. yeah, i said today. the reason why is because my friends don’t believe me how good the waves were on the north shore, neither did i. i had to go out there anyway so before i left town, i threw my board in the car just in case. good thing because there was one secret spot on the north shore that was going off!!! it was a little sandbar that was chest high with perfect right and left spitting barrels. blue skies, blue water, blue barrels. i was watching it for a while and there was only one bodyboarder out. after i saw him get barrel after barrel, i had to surf. i jumped for 1 hour and got barreled on every wave. one of my best sessions of the year!!! i’m so happy!!! want to know where it is? never mind. i promised aoi i wouldn’t tell anybody so your going to have to find it yourself. i might have to go back there tomorrow….

and i still can’t get over the volcano explosion in tonga the other day. nuts…

we found this lizard egg in my house and for the past month, were hoping for it to hatch. well, today it finally hatched. but the bad news is that the baby lizard didn’t survive…. poor thing….

Fun Clean Waves….

good morning. 6:30am and woke up to just what i expected. no waves… the south swell came down already. let’s just call it a half/day swell. oh well…. tradewinds picked up a bit, town is waist/chest high, north shore is smaller. going to take my suitcase and board bag out and start filling it up. i haven’t lived out of my suitcase for a while but i’m looking forward to it. 1 surfboard, 1 speargun, 1 tshirt, and 1 surf trunks. that’s all i need…. oh wait, i forgot wasabi…. better go to marukai today. have a nice day!!!

when shun was in hawaii, i took him to mcdonalds. it was the first time he ate a hot fudge sundae with nuts on the top. it only cost a dollar…. can’t get this in japan…

kota’s writing down a message in kairi’s diary. i wonder what it says. what a cute kid…

check out ryoma and his brothers in yoshihama..

and ryota, shun, ren in yoshihama. gosh, all these kids are so cute. i wish i could steal them…haha…