The Adventures of Big ‘K’

As you may or may not know, twice a week, we go to the beach. At the beach, we do yoga and then Tai Chi. After that, we are warm enough to dive in the ocean. Keep in mind, it’s not like we are swimming. It’s a little too cold for that. We dive in, get our heads wet and get out. After, we get some hot cocoa at Marinis. Recently, it’s been a bit harder to go in the water because for the past while, the tide has been out and there also haven’t been many waves. This means we’d have to walk farther to where it got deep and by that time, we had cooled off.

Today, it was quite different. It was pretty rough. As we were doing Yoga, some big waves sprung up out of nowhere. It seemed like good body surfing so I took off my shirt to swim instead of doing Tai Chi. However, after Yoga, the waves settled down so I did Tai Chi with the rest of the gang.

However, when we finished Tai Chi and headed for the water, the waves came back! Boy, it sure was rougher than I thought! A big wave was coming so I was running towards it to be the the right spot to ride it. Unfortunately, By the time I reached the spot, the wave had already peaked so I tried diving into the wave to get through to the other end but the wave pushed me back rolled me on the ground for a while before I could get up. Then, I saw another wave coming so I decided to try to go for it. Same thing happened and this time, salty water got sent up my nose. I decided enough was enough so I was walking back. Even that was pretty hard ’cause the water was rushing back. Then a wave pushed me forward and I managed to get back.

Boy, I was more out of breath from swimming than I was from biking back at full speed (which is a tradition to do on the way back home.

I think since it’s been quite a while since I’d body surfing, I hadn’t gotten my “groove” on (if you know what I mean)