time slipping by

My youngest son Happy Zephyr Walsh is going to turn 1 year old on Sunday. How did that happen? Oh, so that means Otis is almost 3? That probably explains why I can hold at-length conversations with him on the phone these days. Wow. For those of you that are here in town, please feel free to come by the surf camp this Sunday at 2PM for Happy's birthday party. There will be snacks and drinks. There will be the Super Bowl at 5PM. Sounds like another good Sunday.

I've been really lucky lately, even though I've been really busy with the surf camp I've been able to get away and surf my favorite reefs three out of the last six days. I got a few pics from a local photographer that happened to be on the beach one of the days this last week.

I went again yesterday and had really fun waves even though Tamarindo was the smallest it had been in over a week. I'm really stoked to ride a fish without a center fin as the tail slides so well frontside or backside.

I hear that a lot of businesses in the area aren't doing too well. There are commercial buildings empty or emptying. Stores are going out of business. People are losing jobs. The recession is an international thing. We are so lucky at WRSC, although we only have 18 rooms they are all full of happy guests. Our guests are the BOMB, telling their friends and coming back again and again. You guys are helping keep this crazy dream alive, and we thank you. I thank you in the biggest way.

My wife, my boys, my dad, they all arrive tomorrow night. I'm counting the hours. It has been since January 5th, three and a half weeks, since I've been with my boys. I hung out with Holly for less than 72 hours in Florida during the Surf Expo. I'm sick of doing stints of heavy work without the family.