Carnival

Night one
Went out at lunch time and got some sangria, who says you can't drink before lunch. This is vacation after all.
Well kicked off first night with a mega up set stomach.  I think it was the spaghetti sauce we tryed a new kind.... Not a good idea.
We headed out not dressed up. We got to the right bar lol Mario was very specific as to witch one. We walk it it is after 11 and there is no one there. So we decided to go for a walk and we noticed alot of people dressed up in Halloween type costumes heading from the hamburger shop to the bar so we did a lap of the board walk and when back to the bar.
This time there were alot more people.  Shortly after we got there a guy shows up and what does he have with him a SHEEP. A live sheep in a bar. It was so odd to see. And the bar staff did not care they just came to pet it. It has to be the odest thing I have seen at a bar.
Now more about the costumes. I must say I have never seen so little of girls. It was not a slut fest. There was a girl as a bunny and she had black leggings and a black long sleeve shirt. Every one was dressed for the weather.  There were alot of people that just had on old and odd looking prices.  There was a clown cupple. There was a girl in a chicken costume.
We were not out long because I felt like dinner was going to come back up to party. So I called it an early night we were home around 1.
Oh I almost forgot for a drink we got screw drivers my favorite and let me tell you the put atleast 2 shots in and then she hand squeezed an orange then toped it off with bottled orange juice. It was strong but very good.
Night 2
Well we went with the surf school to watch because we had nothing better to do. It was so hot and sunny. It was hard not to go surfing I miss it so. We did get to walk out this wave braker to protect the ship yard. Because of this man made wall that place is know for its great tub waves. The body boarders are so cool.  Mario had his body board and man he has moves I can see how it is an extreme sport. There was a girl there from Madrid he parents have a flat here so she comes and surfs with the school.
After a late dinner me and shauna curled up in the bed room it was so cold. My back was bugging me so I layed down and put my head phones in. Next thing I know it was after 12.
So we did not end up going out.
Day 3
We went back to surf school to watch again and to bring back our wetsuits. It was very cold there is a big storm coming. We went back to the beach that we surfed our first week. It was nice to walk around and see the clifs to bad the swell was small today because the first couple days the waves we crashing on top.

With all the packing and cleaning we decided to not go back out. I did however go back to Aquarius to do some banking. What a hoping place. There were alot of people and they were dressed up. Lots of clowns seams to be a popular one. The girl that works there got talking with me and the shops birthday is in may and I guess they do a big thing for it so hopefully we will get to see that.

We are off to Rome next. Thankfully the school offers transportation to the airport ya for not having to lug our stuff around.

One month down

Today makes the one month mark for me and shauna.  Well what can I say. It is going just how I thought it would. I think the relationship is going great :P.   We fight like ever cupple but in the morning it is a new day and we are laughing and joking once again. If I don't get abbs from surfing then I will from all our laughing. We have been playing alot of life and monopoly let's just say I hope I do better in real life because man I suck.
I love having my best friend to experience this with and I think this trip will bring us closer because no mater how much we may fight the laughter is all was tenfolds more.
Hay boys she does the dishes and closeses the drawers behind you :P
Love Europe great life move. Parents incourage your kids to travel, it is good for them.

End of surfing

Well we are all done surfing and I must say I impressed my self with how well I did. I enjoyed it so much. I am so happy that I was able to stand up and turn and get green waves. There were some ruf days but shake them off and keep going. I can not wait to see what I will be able to accomplish .
The high light was having a conversation with Shauna and some one over hereing it because we don't know if the did hear it of just all our laughing.
Good times plan to make more memories when we come back and have a kick ass birthday.  I home to get the guys to take us out octopus hunting. We will see.
Stay tuned blog readers because after this weekend I will but up the good version of carnival weekend and then we are off to Italy.

Found

Well after yesterday's dasater of a day. I truly thought a truck had run me over. I went home just laid on the bed. Shauna made super so that was great.
Today I am still in alot of pain, nothing drugs won't fix:P
Tthis morning we woke up to 2 guys surfing in front of our place we watched them as we ate breakfast.   For our morning session we got to surf out front of our place. That was exciting.  The morning did not go well. We ended up leaving the green to go back to the white.  We did get more pictures of us surfing so that was great. We also got the typical surfer pose. Wet suit half off with the board it made my morning.
We were back early because we did not have to drive anywhere so we went for a nice walk along the beach as we ate our lunch, I know u must be jealous.
For the afternoon we went back to the beach that we used at the start of camp. We got out and both marrio and shauna were yelling at me to go but I was still trying to get over my fear.  Once I talked my self into going it was great I got up on a wave and I did not look down lol I looked at Shauna and I surfed a green wave. I am sure every one thiuqi was crazy because I was yelling yaaaa at the end me and shauna had a 30 sec dance party.
After that I just got hammered by waves one gguy Allmost took my head off a had to dive to get out of theway but my board is still to big to go under when I came up I looked for him he did not fall very far, if looks could kill. Oh well he should have stayed with his group and left us be.
So I had one good wave but man was it good.
My feet are frozen I don't think they will ever thought out.
Good night here is to a good tomorrow since it is our last surfing day.

Has any one seen my mojo

Well went out last night... Went to the bar that Mario told us about. Got drinks sat down no one was dancing.  All the played was 80 music. We stink of sigarett smoke. Mario told us today we went to wroug bar, we went to old people bar. Oh only us.

Today we went to a secrete surf spot can't say we're. 

We were surfing green waves. One wave crashed on me and some how my board got behind me and was pushing against my back my feet hit me inthe back of the head. Back has been soor and stiff since. Very hard to sit here right now. 

I did tryto ketch this one wave I got into the right spot and started to flare my arms then I was like no and gripes the side of the board and was like no the entire time Joe was like up up up.  I did not get up. It was so fast and felt so different.  It was the wave of the day and I messed up. Shauna said that Joe was yelling up a storm at me because it was a perfect wave apparently he even took out a fack shotgun to shoot me. The day did not get better I maybe got up 2 times. 

For some reason it seams like I have lost my surfing self.  

Just not a good day alot of falls 

Painful day

This morning was a good morning Joe came with an extra treat for breakfast. This tart with some yummy filling. He said it was his favorite. And I forgot to and this yesterday don't know how but yesterday Mario showed up with peanut butter, we talked about missing it and asked if it was here, and u can only get it at special stores well he saw it and get it for us, he is so great.
So along with they yummy tart we also got to have peanut butter on toast. It was so good I think I went to heaven. I missed peanut butter soooo much.
There was bad wind and the swell was coming in wrong so we had to go to this new beach.... Well we were surfing were the river met the ocean...all my shark stuff tells me this is a no no but Mario said they don't get that type of sharks, so I trusted him and went in. We'll how the swells were coming in we were in calf high water with 4 to 5 feet waves crashing on us, and the water level got to maybe waist deep. Very hard to surf.
I took one very bad fall the wave slamed me into the bottom the right side of my face and shoulder took a good hit. After that my right shoulder hurt I only caught maybe 2 waves after that much it was hard to get up when favoring one side.
Oh on a funny note one wave slamed me into the ground so hard my hands got stuck in the sand.
I dropped half my spaghetti in the sink at lunch.
Then back to surfing we were not to happy to know we had to surf they same spot but Mario said he only goes there as a last resort.
The waves were much better waist high water so you were not getting slamed into the bottom.
The waves were bigger 6to 7feet. I got a few waves and my shoulder was still bugging me so I got out to stretch it, it felt tight. I was stretching it and I let out a burp and then it poped and felt ten times better.
So back to the water, I got one good wave went to turn to the back side witch is ur hard side to turn lost my balance, one foot fell off one foot stayed on board I did not know I could do the splits that far.
Then on another wave my legs were faster then the rest of me. Cut my hand with my toenail, was bleeding the rest of the time we were there.
We'll I think that was the most of the pains.
Going out to the bars tonight should be fun.

Hope you are sitting down for this!

To start off the day we were surfing the 9 feet waves there was a guy breaking the world record for biggest wave surfed it was 100 ft yep and it was less then an hour drive from were we were surfing.
We had 2 days off, surf 5 get two off.  The first day we walked to this fort that we can see way down the beach.  It was about a 3 k walk on this back road through the country. What a great view.
That night or surf instructor going to call him Joe because that is what his name is in English I guess is what Mario was telling us to day. So Joe took us out for an authentic dinner. We went to this restaurant that is his favorite and they had the fish just on ice and you could pick yours out. So we ended up getting a starter with octopus, muscles, shrimp (with there faces still on), and fish eggs. So I tryed the octopus and I liked it I had two pieces. The fish eggs were very grainy is the best way to describe it.
We ordered two types of fish and squid. One fish was silver the other red. I liked the silver fish shauna liked the red one. The squid was gross and it took everything to eat it. It was very much like a mushroom but chewyer. Mario was telling us it was most likely because it was boiled he only likes it grilled.
Yep so there u have it me miss picky tryed fish and enjoyed it. Fancy that.
The next day we tryed to ride the bikes into town, well my chain was rusted into spot, the third bike the tire was so flat it was coming off.
So we just chilled at home, had some alone time. We both needed it.
I love that I was sitting out on a picnic table in a tee shirt in February,  man life is so hard.  Now people remember this is me, miss cold as ice and I was in a tee.
Latter that afternoon we went for a tour of a surf board shop. It was so interesting to see how much harder work goes into each board. So very neat.
We were back to surfing today.
My turning is getting very good getting lots of claps and thumbs up from Mario. This morning we were surfing white waves.
Oh I should explain that. White waves is the waves that have all ready broken and they are white and foamy looking. Green waves are the ones that have not broken yet, they are the ones real surfers surf lol.
So this morning we were surfing the whites witch is what every beginner does but we have moved up and surf the bigger whites that are out farther so knee to butt level.
I went to get one white and it felt like it had more power but I still went for it and I even turned. I fall off and Mario is like perfect. So I was happy as I got closer he told me that the wave had got stronger and turned back into a green,  I surfed a green perfectly and I guess to ketch one get up and turn is the last steep you are taught so that made me happy.  Mind you that wave was maybe 3feet but still, it all so explained why it felt different. So after some more whites Mario is like ok time to get some green we are like ok. Well that poor man we went out to chest high water and he would swim run us in line and give us a push so we could get the wave. Of man what a feeling to get a green wave. I got up lots thanks to his push to get the speed. These were around 3 and 4 feet waves. It was so amazing and I think I did very well. Mind you when u fall the waves have alot more force.
Thank you water polo for teaching me to just wait underwater. I have been tossed by some big waves and not once panicked if anything I cought my self thinking I better get posesion once this ass gets off me, that was also one of my harder hits.
Over all it was a great morning  I wasn't cloud nine.
So this afternoon Mario told us to bring our camera I havevan underwater one.
So we started the afternoon getting some great shots of us surfing and falling lol. Well I know I got up and was able to turn what ever way he signaled witch was what ever side shauna was not on. There was slim picking for waves the wind was very strong and killing the white waves. Shauna said she did not get up much I was just in my own surfing bubble. So after a bit Mario said today is the calmest and smallest the big waves are going to be, the were at least 6feet. And we paddled out and sat there just like real surfers it was suchba great feeling kind of like getting to move up to the adult table from the kids. There had to be atleast 10 guys out there.  And what a great view getting to watch them try to make a wave from behind. Must say if the wind was not tossing sand and water in my face I could have enjoyed the view much better.
With Mario giving me a push I was able to get 2 waves but I chickened out slash the wind made me fall. So I stered to go down and we'll it is a big dip donw and I could not keep my self from looking down.  Rule one look were u want to go so the beach.
I will just need to work on that in may. Because Mario said it does not look like we will be going back out there if the swells stay so big.
It was a great day and I am excited that I got 4 more days to surf then it is carnival time me and shauna are going to stay because it is how they say good buy to winter it is just a big party and I guess you dress up and sounds like a blast.
I decided to treat my self for my birthday and I will be coming back here for my birthday.  I will fly in on May 5 then and will stay another two weeks any one is welcome to join.  Google global surf school to get prices.
We also discovered that the cafe with free wifi is only open on weekends.