Post #235600 by bungy on Fri, Jun 2, 2006 7:54 PM

Had a great time in Hwaii, and now I'm back in harness.. whatever that means.. when you don't have to work anymore!! I can't stand saying "retired!"'The best action I had was on Magic Sands Beach in Kailua, Kona.. the first day, the waves were probably about 4-5 feet tall, and that was pretty good. I'd never used a boogie board before so, when I saw a really fancy one with the rubber cord at a yard sale for a dollar I picked it up.. and was already to go boogie surfing. I stood on the shore for a while, until I saw a couple of little 12 year old girls go in, and said, "Why! If they can do it, so can I"! I'm into my seventh decade, so it is a little scary! But, I dove in and paddled until here came the next big 6 foot wave. It was just curling at the top, and I thought I would cut through it and go further out. I held the boogie board in front of me and took oof thru the wave. It curled and the force threw the boogie board right back in my face. Whack! I turned around, deposited the board on the sand, and had a great time riding the waves solo!
The next day, there were "Danger" signs all over the place, abnd the guards were right at the oceans edge. So, I stood for a while, finally said, "I'm going for it!" and dove in. It was gloruois! Waves crashing all around,thundering over me. The sun shining, the water clear as a bell, the soft breezes blowing! WOW!
I wrote in a lot about Disneyland's hsitory after I got home.. has anyone seen it! I still can't get around this computer too well!
Update on Book! It is at publishers, and will probably be 3 more weeks.. It was so much fun actually accomplishoing it.. you are all so interesting, you ought to try it too!! I will put an ad on Tiki Central and in Tiki Mag.
Are we having a "Pot luck Luau" at Royal Palms State Park in San Pedro on Aug 20th?? It's my old home where I was raised! I read somewhere that Catalina Island has a big Tiki somehting going on that weekend, maybe those who go can stopp off and LUAU on there way home. Royal Palms is only 10 min. from Catalina Terminal. Ask Bamboo Ben, that scally wag!
Right before I went to Hawaii, I taught over 100 kids to dance the hula.. they were given a Luau for passing a really hard test! It took 4 hours !! It was FUN! Tomorrow I go to the local airport, where I help out qwith a big BBQ Fly-in.. little planes from all over the area fly in, eat, greet, and meet, and then, they take off again. We are raisung scholarship funds for future pilots! I keep telling those guys I want to learn to fly.. but they just change the subject! One has a paraplane.. which is a plane with a parchute! Now, that would be fun.. but a bit trickey.

I am sorry I can't answer all back.. I can't figure out how!!!
Hawaiya, Hawaiya, Hawaiya, like Arthur Godfrey used to say when he started his radio program in the '40s?.He played the ukulele!
Aunty Bungy

PS: I have started reading Richard henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" again.. and it is a wonderful history of San pedro abd the Calif. coast with all the sailign ships in the 1830's..