Sunday, January 16, 2011

Its all fun and games till the waves get big

We have found a great spot here at Playa Mizata in El Salvador. The people here are super friendly, bringing many local treats fresh from the forest (mangoes and coconuts) and from the ocean (oysters and lobster!). Perhaps most important, they included us in the tubing extravaganza!!!!!!! Who
needs a boat!!!








IT WAS SO FUN!



Abandon Ship!


Slammed.



The crashes were so fun!!!



We had tons of fun and everyone came out of the water smiling. Today however, was a little different story. Shona was the first one out and had a little chill time before the waves showed up.


Shona catching a small one early in the morning.



As the morning went on the waves got way bigger, and our excitement grew tremendously. If you look closely, I think you can see Shona's board as she was tubed out. Trust me, she's in there.




 
Unfortunately, she didn't come outta that one unscathed. The fin of her board caught her on the shin pretty good.




Kelly McB, you're lucky yours was only a little one compared to this one.......



Project number one of the day. Fix up Shona.



We both agreed that the steri-strips would do after some careful consideration about pulling out the needle and thread.......





We did get it looking quite good and in fact got the skin back together quite securely. No worries moms.... After a little break it was on to project #2 of the day...... Fixing the board.

Shona and the surfboard repaired, it was a very exciting day to say the least!!!!

2 comments:

  1. SHONA!

    Are you trying to one up me??? What the heck! Happy to hear you're ok, battle scars. We'll have to compare once you're home.
    Be careful with infection with that sucker, no one wants you to get gangrene or something dreadful like that. BUT on the plus side, that looks dang sweet and bad ass.
    Keep rocking you two and thanks again for the phone call to my Austrian hospital bed. It was so nice to hear your voices... well what I could hear of them anyways through the drug haze...

    Ok be safe, all my love and let me have the glory of battle scars and healing cause I want you two to have some fun out there, so I can live vicariously
    Kelly

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  2. Holy mackeral!

    Thats one big gash. I'm glad to hear that Shona was repaired up after that bit. Nice work Andrew. If I was there, I would've pulled out the rivet gun....

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