Friday, September 16, 2011

On the water!

Nearly every day at the beach somebody, if not everybody, would be braving the cold waters of the Pacific. And when they did, this was the sight you would see!
Everyone would line up along the wall and the deck with their cameras taking shots of all the crazy people in the water! Here they are all lined up waiting for the next big wave!
Here it comes!
Wooooohooooo!!!!!
AJ was out there all day! Usually the first one in the water and the last one out of the water!
Papa enjoyed riding the waves...
...and even created his own outfit for doing so with the seaweed floating around him!
So handsome!!!
Ryan was dying to get out there and go boogie boarding like he had at Sunset Beach!
Unfortunately the first wave he rode had some other plans and flipped him over, so he never went out on the boogie board again!
Justin was dead set on learning to surf! So, he and some of my brother in-laws and cousins went in together and rented a few surf boards! He had a lot of fun!
There he his, catching a wave!!!
Time for a break!
This was as close as the boys got to surfing, but they were scared of how big these boards were anyways!
Justin, Austin, Ryan and Allen!
Justin, Allen, Craig and Ross!
Allen, Justin and Steve!
The other fun thing we had to do on the water was kayak! Ryan was really excited when Big Ryan (Krista's cousin) and his friend Matt (who we call Uncle Larry) invited him to go out on the kayak with them!
Ryan got a little nervous when he was the only one in the kayak and the waves were trying to tip it. But once they passed where the waves were breaking, they were off and he calmed down!
Big Ryan said that when they were out there, Ryan was kinda worried about sharks coming to eat them! It doesn't help that we went to the Beach House the week after Shark Week! We were all paranoid!
They were riding a wave back in which quickly flipped them over. Uncle Larry's first instinct was to grab Ryan and get him above the water. I was so impressed with that, and with the fact that Ryan didn't freak out! We thought for sure he would come in upset and crying. He was just cold and ran straight to the hot tub...
...after hosing all of the sand off of himself!
Megan and Allen also had some fun on the kayak!

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