Scotts Surfing

 

Today we woke up at our host families houses and drove the whopping 3 1/2  minutes to the Zondervans house where we all met up and split into the two fifteen passenger vans. We drove about 45 min though some light L.A. traffic and arrived a small inlet where there were kayaks lined up on the shore just waiting to be taken out! Curt and Amber staggered the start and handed all the teams a map. Aaron hopped in the back of the sit on top kayak and started paddling while I sat in the front and prepared to navigate the canals lined with million dollar houses and boats.

            We had four checkpoints along the way. At our first checkpoint we bad to carry the boat up to a wooden walkway and then go down a children’s slide and get our picture taken by Amber who was there waiting for the teams. Our next two places we had to visit were bridges. We had to go under these bridges and call out to people who were there waiting for the groups to arrive. Our final destination was possibly the most difficult. Mark Asma was in a kayak hidden in one of the side canals off of a larger canal… so yeah trial and error on that one.

            We raced back to the starting point, which is also where we started and we ended up coming in fourth. We were pleased with this because there had already been several teams that finished in front of us but due to the staggered start we beat out a few of them. The next challenge of today was not one for points but rather experience and fun in the sun!

            We traveled less than a mile to Huntington Beach and met up with some Valley Christian High School students who spent their Saturday morning bearing with surfing newbie college students. It was a ton of fun! I have decided that I would have loved to grow up closer to the ocean because surfing would have been my sport of preference.

            After about and hour in the water we switched so our partners could have the same awesome experience that we had. It was too much fun J After everyone had surfed for the say we just laid in the sun and talked amongst ourselves. It was a relaxing afternoon and the beginning of some color coming back into our faces! That night for dinner we went to the Huntington Beach pier. At the end of this pier is the diner Ruby’s. Classic burgers and shakes and it was sweet (also on this trip the word sweet is pronounced –sweat- I really don’t know why.) After dinner we walked the pier and wondered the streets around Huntington Beach. It is a really cool town and there is always something to do.

            Today was sweet we kayaked and surfed (which may just be the highlight of my trip). 

-Scott