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Happy Valentine’s Day!!! What better way to spend a beautiful February day than to take off from work and go surfing?!
For the love-centric holiday, Ted and I gave each other the gift of neoprene. I gave him booties and a hood (as he already had gloves), and he gave me gloves and a hood.
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We just got back from a trip over to Jacksonville to visit Ted’s family and there have been reports that the surf was going to be on today. Between my new board and the booties my dad and stepmom gave me for Christmas, I was ready.
When we got to the beach, I saw a lineup unlike any that I’ve seen before. There were probably 30 guys in the water, many of whom were doing some seriously impressive “shredding.” This refers to the cuts that shortboarders make back and forth across a wave but there has to be enough wave in order to pull this off.
Today, there was definitely that.
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Oh what a MAGICAL time of year!!! My first Christmas as a surfer has been full of all sorts of sugarplum fairies (only these fairies were wearing board shorts) and it began on the 23rd when I arrived at Ted’s for our Christmas dinner.
I had just come from getting my fourth-ever pedicure (seriously, why pay for those when you can do them yourself…without the risk of a weird bacterial infection from the foot tubs) and went to set down my bag.
When I walked by the wall where he mounts his snowboard, I immediately noticed something different all together: a surfboard with decorations shaped like giant Christmas lights hanging from it!
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