This was a fairly lazy day in feel, but not in activity. Ava slept enough, but not a notable amount.

I’ve got a short list of places I want to snorkel on the island, and one of them is nearby. I wrote about Hale’iwa Trench last Sunday as well, that’s odd timing. I walked over to the beach park again to try to get in the water. When I got there, the surf was up, but not dangerously high. Just “uncomfortable to swim in” high? I still didn’t want to swim through it.

I watched the waves for a bit and plotted a route through a non-wavey area past the waves and across the back of the choppy section. I found out that the reason it was non-wavey was because the water was only knee-deep, and for a long time. I walked across it for 7-8 minutes and ended up getting stabbed in the foot by a sea urchin. Which stung a bit when I realized what had happened.

I finally got to a point where I could swim and got busy. Good snorkeling out there! And not to choppy, as I thought. But as I enacted my plan to swim around the choppy bits, I realized that this plan was going to have me swimming behind a somewhat dangerous piece of water, that I didn’t know what it would do, and that if it got bad, I would have no where to go for safety. I turned back. Still haven’t seen the trench.

That night I drove to circus again! I have a couple videos, but they are entirely to dark to post, and my video editing software is crashing whenever I try to brighten them. So for now, no videos. 🙁

I met up with the same people as last week and, armed with knowledge of how the event goes, brought a couple skills I wanted to teach. Twizzle, monkey flip. Skills that Tracey and I have done so much that we’ve cut them from our list because they’re overdone by us. I taught the Twizzle, but Angel wasn’t comfortable trying the monkey flip without a padded floor, so we moved onto the skills in the video above that she and her friend Robert showed me.

I spoke at length with a lady named Abby who was quite a big deal in gymnastics when she was younger.

When I left, I got more lost than I have ever been in my life. I missed 2 turns, then when I got into the highway ended up in an Exit Only lane and was forced back into Honolulu, then go navigated to 3 different highway entrances before I got onto the highway again, then took a wrong split off the highway, then missed another highway entrance and went backwards for a bit, before ending up back on the highway for a re-do. Miranda was apparently getting worried. She had a right to. >.<

This morning it’s overcast and threatening to rain and we’ve nothing we have to do except, as Miranda says, eat at Giovanni’s 12 more times. So it may be a day of technology, tv, and maybe some shrimp.