Koko Head Hike

I did not realize how completely OUT OF SHAPE I was until I did this hike! Holy freak! 

Doesn't look too shabby right??? 

Well we started up this never ending path of stairs and were able to see some amazing views...

Then we got about mid-way(ish) and I was stopping every 20 steps... so we took another break and took more pictures :)

(Do you see this incline??? do you see it??)

by about this time was when my legs/butt were about dead! It really doesn't help that the night before I ate something bad and was hacking up my dinner and then didn't eat anything before going on the hike, so I sat at this spot for about 15 min or so... then decided to go onward! 

Then I came to THIS!!!!

(I am standing taking this picture)

Can you please just call a helicopter now?? I would like to inform you that I did make it to the top, but sadly was too sick and weak to actually remember to take a picture! I guess I'll just have to do it again. Next time I will go when I am not sick to my stomach! 

All in all, it was a lot of fun and such a GREAT workout! there were people there running it... they are my hero's! One day.... but not today! :) 

Whale video

So my dear friend Olga has a "Man vs Wild" husband who can't get enough of the ocean, and yesterday he  was swimming along doing some spear fishing and ran into Dolphins and a mother Humpback Whale and her baby! It is just AMAZING.... take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfmfT7IAZk

SURFING!!!

We bought Brint a surfboard for his birthday and the sad part is he was SO incredibly busy with school that he had to wait almost a whole week to use it.  :( But while all the law students were busy with their memo due, me and the wives of other students went out surfing in Waikiki!! oh my goodness... I was so incredibly nervous. Don't know if you remember or not, but I am so afraid of the ocean and everything that lives in the ocean... so getting me out in the water in the first place was a BIG deal... then paddling out to the waves was an even BIGGER deal. Haha but we had so much fun! I was able to catch 2 waves and stood up twice...

Then I decided I needed my own board because I loved surfing so much and I wanted to be able to go out with Brint and our friends when they all go... so I went to Costco and bought my very first surfboard....

How cute... right??? Brint and I were able to go out together the other day and had a blast! haha Brint caught the biggest wave of the day! and I was so chicken because there were rocks underneath us and the waves looked huge! (I guess they were only maybe a foot and a half to two feet) and someone said that the place we were at, the shark sometimes comes and visits... so I was really trying hard not to completely FREAK out.... but we saw 2 turtles while we were out and surfed until sunset... it was beautiful. Next time I'll take the camera out and get pictures!