My trip to Hawaii

By Garret

I woke up early and took a fourty-five minute drive down to Kona. I was going to some surf shop for lessons. When we arrived the place smelled like a bakery. I asked the guy what smelled so good. He said it is some Hawaiian donuts. He gave me one it was good. He said his name was Mike. I said mine was Garrett. When we were talking he said I might not be able to go out today because there was big waves and a really strong current. He said he sent down a couple of his coworkers to the beach to see if it was safe, but the chances are were that I wasn't going to be able to go out. I was so bummed but when I heard that it was safe to go I was so happy. Mike told me to have fun and be safe.

My dad drove me down to the beach. As we drove up there were signs everywhere that said strong current. I was kind of scared but more excited then scared.   We found the two coaches hanging out by the water they said, you must be Garrett".

I said, "Yep".

So after about ten minutes of chatting about my life they gave me a rash guard to put on so I wouldn't get a rash from the salt water. After an introduction on surfing I finally got to go into the water it was so warm I started paddling out on my surfboard. I saw a sea turtle it was really cool because I have never seen one in the ocean before it was a really cool experience.  

Then Brock my coach said to me, "Catch the next wave!" I tried and it didn't work out to well. I fell off the board and hit my foot on a piece of coral because the water wasnÃt real deep. I tried three more times and nothing happened. After three more tries I had to start paddling back to the shore because the curent was really strong and it had pulled us far already.

After about 590,569,032.6 tries I finally got up. Getting on that first wave was so cool. It felt good inside of methat is until I fell off and my back hit a rock it didn't hurt to bad but if I didnÃt have that rash guard it would have hurt a lot more if I didn't have a rash guard. I didnÃt want to but after a long day of paddling I was ready to go.   That day was the best day of my life and I want to go surfing again I loved it.