Great job Wada-san and Arai-san! You both did great for your first surfing experience!!!!

Semai means “Narrow”
Good morning 6:15am.
North Shore 6-8′ and getting bigger this evening. Huge on 12/28. South shore waist high and clean.
Winds North/East at 10mph.
Clouds, sun, and rainbows all day.
Going surfing.
Have a wonderful day!

OMG, what another long day! i can’t believe how many things a person can do in just one day. woke up early and fixed the boys trailer in my garage, then took the girls to the pool, snorkeling, surfing, to waikiki beach, fishing, then ended up at my family christmas dinner. a great day of fun and a great day of memories. tomorrow i start work again and i’m looking forward to it!

we went back to my secret snorkeling reef today and it didn’t let us down. in fact, we seen more than yesterday. check out this turtle that swam right up to me! good thing i had my camera because this is an amazing photo and an amazing moment. look good at this photo and you can see a big fat red kumu on the left side. gosh, i wish i had my spear!

the girls were following me closely behind as i swam up on 2 sharks. i stop and tell them “hey, please don’t panic. we are going to swim up to sharks so just follow me.” of course one of them panic and jump on my back. haha. the sharks were sleeping peacefully and i didn’t want to wake them up because i knew all the girls would panic then.

then we anchored my boat off waikiki and paddled our boards into the beach. i felt like i went to another planet! from the peaceful underwater world to the most busiest beach in the world. it was so hot and crowded that i had to get out of there.

Hiyori-chan caught 3 waves in waikiki and on the 4th one, she fell and her board flew back and hit her on the head. luckily she was fine. i don’t think i ever want to surf waikiki again because it is just too dangerous.

i finally told Hiyori-chan that the most famous mountain in the world is diamond head. now she knows. gosh, today was like a perfect summer day. warm weather, warm water, and super sunny!

then we came back to my house and had our yearly family christmas dinner. so stoked to see the boys growing up into fine men, and even finer surfers.

Hiyori-chan doesn’t know who Kelia Moniz is. i think that is cool! eating a hawaiian dinner next to a hawaiian 2x world champion.
i ate too much poi! going to sleep and hopefully lose some weight dreaming. good night and hope you all enjoyed your christmas day. one last time, MERRY CHRISTMAS!