Getting excited emails from my surfing friend Mr Fryer about a decent swell coming in on saturday morning, it was time to try my hand at surfing again.  We arrived at Aberdeen beach at 7am just as the sun was rising and the swell was looking good, a little too good.  Both Scott and I rather inexperienced novices at this sport we both looked at each other rather worryingly at the size of the waves!  We thought we would get the hero photos first before we went in as we were certain it was not going to be a pretty site after!

Once in I remembered how hard it is on your shoulders to battle through the white water to paddle ‘out back’ to were it is relatively calm before the waves break, we then sit on the boards bobbying around admiring the sunrising and choosing the wave we would try and ride in and get a pretty sure thing pounding by mother nature as we fall off.  Well we did get a good pounding trying to surf in, both getting up a few times and really enjoying it.  Mr Fryer caught a few beauty rides and it made us want to get better so we could surf like him as it just looked magical riding the waves like he did. 

The rest of the day was spent playign with the baby, she has started to love playing with building blocks

When i say playing there is nothing intellectual going on here, she is not making towers or spelling out words.  She mainly just throws them around and waits for us to pick them up and place them back in front of her before she throws them around again.  When she gets bored of this she does laps around the coffee table with her new found crawling skills.

Once she had tired us out we put her to bed and all chipped in and made dinner together and had a good dinner talking about everything and everyone. 

Was a great evening and thank you Caryn and Frank for all your help and baby sitting this weekend.