hurry up and relax

maybe its because I feel a little stress these last few days, like for example right now I'm filing my sales tax for January for the surf camp at 9 at night with a surf camp restaurant packed to the point of no-more-tables-sorry-what-can-we-do and instead of being out there, or upstairs watching tv while Tico Hendrix is playing, I'm in the office doing something I should have done a week ago, or that I should have figured out how to get someone else to do for me a week ago. whatever, its up to me to get it done. A great way to spend a Sunday night, right? I'm so stoked the camp is so busy and wish I could be meeting the 45 new surf camp guests that arrived yesterday. From what I hear everyone seems pretty cool thus far. Last week was a great week full of lots of really nice guests, many of which booked their next trip to WRSC while they were here because of our new "book before you leave and get 20% off of your next trip". We know this place is like heroin and you need it, we're just trying to make it easier. I decided to leave the surf camp compound and spend Saturday night in Avellanas at the beach house with the family, my dad, chris natalia larry valerie plus then Mark Tucker's crew. Avellanas sunset surf session, then beers, pasta, my shitty guitar and a few more beers. This morning we just cruised. Having kids is an always kind of thing, and this morning they were up at 630am and playing toys on the bed and on my head and Otis was doing whatever he could to wake me up. That was rough. Today has been a long day, but looking back at the last week I feel good because a lot of good things happened. Here I am chilling with my dad Friday night, just hanging out shooting the shit and a "hey look here I'm taking a photo" comment and-

I blogged about trying to get some music down here for the surf contest this coming weekend Feb 21-22. I went to school with the guys from Switchfoot and mentioned them and BAM Chad Butler emails me and then next thing you know they're staying here after a show a couple nights ago in Guatamala and surfing a bit, tomorrow they're going out on the boat to Witch's Rock and Ollie's Point with Ricardo. I used to love driving the boat to Witch's and Ollie's and I miss it. I don't go nearly enough now that I live in Tamarindo, but I guess I surf down here a lot more than I used to when I lived in Playa Coco. This last week the waves were really fun right out in front of the surf camp. I feel I can talk about it since the swell direction, tides and wind all changed, so its not like you're going to read this and then be out there tomorrow. Besides, if you were it would be fine because the rivermouth is going to suck tomorrow. Or maybe it isn't and I'm just trying to confuse you. Maybe I'm just rambling. All I know is that the Tamarindo Rivermouth can be firing at times and there will be nobody out, then at other times it can suck and be really crowded. It definitely helps when you live nearby and can watch it throughout the day, and then when its good just disappear from work for an hour or two. Thats just the best. I was getting lots of rights off of the sand bar and getting some little tubitos or trying to bust shitty airs.

I don't normally do airs, probably because I never used to really know how to do them. Lately I've been figuring them out a little bit. The offshore winds pretty much blew the board out to outerspace, I shouldve been grabbing the board and flipping it back into the wave. At least I can do that on Kelly Slater's Pro Skater video game but yeah thats different than real life. At least I can still get 30 free lives on Contra Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A