It's like, totally AWESOME, dude!
Yup, Patrick's been bitten by the surf bug... We bought him surf lessons (rationale: surfing = a major feature of life around here = social life = sun, sea, sand = fitness, tan... etc etc; you get the picture).
The guy who went into the water spoke relatively normally; he came out saying BODACIOUS! RAD! and AWESOME! It's not so much that we've produced a monster; we seem to have excavated Patrick's inner Keanu Reeves...
Patrick thoroughly enjoyed the surf lessons, to the extent that his loving father, stepmother and sister have nurtured his surfing habits by forking out for a surf board (Southpoint 6' 10" epoxy 'fish' board, for those in the know), board bag, spring weight wetsuit (short legs and sleeves), board wax (I'm pleased to say that it's Mrs Palmer's Super Sticky rather than Sex Wax or Five Daughters), soft grip board attachments for the car's roof rack, and a dinky little waterproof bag for his money and keys that he can zip inside his wetsuit.
We're cool. I got to go to 'Coopers Surf' at the Jetty with him and ask all sorts of dumb questions about what you do with the wax, why length matters etc etc. Hard, at times, to escape the feeling that 'surf terminology' is specially designed to make women sound as if they're giving men the come-on, but there you go... Had I been a nubile twenty-something in a bikini it might have been a problem, but as 40-year old stepmother of almost 19-year old lad I don't think anyone would have taken me seriously!!!
The guy who went into the water spoke relatively normally; he came out saying BODACIOUS! RAD! and AWESOME! It's not so much that we've produced a monster; we seem to have excavated Patrick's inner Keanu Reeves...Patrick thoroughly enjoyed the surf lessons, to the extent that his loving father, stepmother and sister have nurtured his surfing habits by forking out for a surf board (Southpoint 6' 10" epoxy 'fish' board, for those in the know), board bag, spring weight wetsuit (short legs and sleeves), board wax (I'm pleased to say that it's Mrs Palmer's Super Sticky rather than Sex Wax or Five Daughters), soft grip board attachments for the car's roof rack, and a dinky little waterproof bag for his money and keys that he can zip inside his wetsuit.
We're cool. I got to go to 'Coopers Surf' at the Jetty with him and ask all sorts of dumb questions about what you do with the wax, why length matters etc etc. Hard, at times, to escape the feeling that 'surf terminology' is specially designed to make women sound as if they're giving men the come-on, but there you go... Had I been a nubile twenty-something in a bikini it might have been a problem, but as 40-year old stepmother of almost 19-year old lad I don't think anyone would have taken me seriously!!!
posted by Sara Bowen at 7:34 am
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Err... Just lacking a photo of the awesome dude actually on the surf board (and I don't mean on teh beach either!)
Yes... I spent bloody ages trying to upload more pictures and couldn't get the ruddy software to work! I actually missed the chance to show Patrick standing up on his board on a wave - the camera took too long to autofocus...
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