Last Friday, Robert (my boss) gave me his boogie board, gave me some tips on how to catch the waves, and set me off to have fun. While the Pacific Ocean is freakin' freezin' (all thanks to the Gulf of Alaska... damn Alaska), my wetsuit made it just fine (funny story about the wetsuit... but I will get to that in a second). The waves were pretty good at the beach on base, but they were just breaking way too close to shore to really do anything with them. The other intern here did some talking around and found a serious surfer that told him about another beach (where the aforementioned surfer had broken his leg). So after work on Monday, we headed over there. The surf was awesome and the waves were huge. It was really nice at one point when the sun was setting, a wave was passing me and spraying ocean mist on me, and I looked over to see some kind of marine animal pop out of the water for a second. That made me realize why I love this place so much.

As for the story about the wet suite, I went to WalMart to get the suit along with a few other things. I was in the self checkout lane and the scanner was giving me a lot of trouble because it would not scan my wetsuit, and it was double scanning another thing. Both things needed to get approval from the cashier lady, and each time I needed her, she had just decided to walk across the store to fix some crooked t-shirt or something. She was never there when I needed her. Anyway, the people behind me in line were *audibly* disgruntled at the amount of time I was taking so I quickly paid for everything and ran out. It wasn't until later when I realized that the whole purchase price was about the amount that the wet suit should have been... because it had not been rung up! The lady-that-was-never-there approved it for free. Anyway, I brought it back and told them what happened, and after the customer service lady tried scanning it a few times, she gave up and told me not to worry about it. Score!

And people say it doesn't pay to be lazy. Ha!

Well tomorrow I am going to Universal to hit all of the rides. Tomorrow is one of the Navy's Fridays off, so hopefully there won't be long lines. Ciao.