Sickness

Well this sucks, on the last day we were in Hawaii I came down with a little cold, I think I caught it from Clarissa becasuse she caught one on the plane ride over, but I thought I was good to go yesterday I felt about 90% better and went out for a longer training ride came back and last night it started to come back!!!!! So frustrating I am so ready to start training and really motivated but I have to hold back and get well.
Some of the Rad kids and Dale are going up to Crystal Mt. and doing some long days in the saddle on the MTB, well I guess I kinda need a MTB because FedEx broke mine.. I gotta figure that one out. Well I am going to get back to doing nothing. Late.

Luke

Home

Well I am home, spend pretty much all day yesterday traveling. Although we had this awesome breakfast at this amazing place called the Gazebo. Its this gazebo that sits on the water that serves really good food. It was really cool, then we packed the car and headed towards the airport and got there early so we headed out to the beach one last time and found this beach where they were doing Kite Boarding lessons and there were a bunch of really good guys doing it too. So we hung out there for a while then headed to the airport, got on the plane and made it home about midnight. It was an awesome trip, and I'd like to really thank my aunt Susie for showing us an amazing time, she really made the trip a lot better. Thanks!

Luke

Hawaii Day 5

Sorry for the lack of a the update yesterday, I have actually come down with some kind of cold that hit me like a ton of bricks and after I got home from surfing yesterday I was out for the count. But we still did some pretty cool stuff. The Girls Danielle and Sarah took surf lessons yesterday and I took out just a board. The waves sucked though there was a lot of waiting around but there were a few good ones, the coolest part was that they ran out of soft top longboards, so they let me take out the short board sweet! They are a lot different and cooler if you ask me. They are much harder to actually catch the wave but once you do its like a sports car and its faster and an turn much easier. The girls took their lessons with the "cute instructors" I donno if they spent more time flurting or surfing??? But each of them got up and did awsome and had a good time. That's all for today still feeling a little rough but its off to the airport now see ya. Late.

LB

Hawaii Day 4

Surfing TODAY!!! It was awesome!! Riss and I took some lessons and rocked it. She did awesome, I think it only took her 2 or 3 times to get up and surf. We were out for 2 hours and caught a bunch a waves got to hang out with a lot of cool people and it was just an awesome morning. We are back for some lunch then we are going to take the body boards and hit the waves again. Gotta Fly. Late!

Oh yeah and a big shout out to Benny!! Nice Work Winning the V. Park crit on Sunday!!!

Hawaii Day 3

Today was a see the Island day. We basically drove the whole thing. We drove to the top of the valcano Haleacala (might have spelled that wrong but you get the picture) and there were all these bike tours that would drive you to the top give you these funny wind proof suites and full face helmets (AWSOME!!!) and take you down the hill.

Check out this Aero Tuck

After the valcano we took a trip to Kula and got to meet this really cool guy, Brad Dugan. He used to be a professional surfer and then was a surfing judge. He lives on this hill that overlooks the whole island he can look out his window and look to see all the best surf spots to see which one is best before he goes out. Also he has a two acre piece of land and has a huge garden on it with all sorts of good stuff gowing out there. He's also an awsome cook, he made us these strawberry crapes and they were awsome.

This Guy was in Brad's Garden

After the awesome food we went to the North Shore of the Island and hung out on the beach right next to the surf spot Jaws and watched a bunch of windsurfers and kite-boarders and surfers for a while. Then we had lunch in Paia and I had this amazing Mahi Mahi sandwhich, Then we headed to Big Beach and hung out there for the sunset. good day lots of pix, Check it!

PIX!

Riss and I in the Condo

Fun Getting Leied

Hawaii Day 2

Check out these pix from the condo, these are basically from the front door, and right outside over the wall there are a bunch of Sea Turtles, they are huge, we have tryed and failed on the whole picture thing, they are always 90% in the water and the pix just look like a black dot in a bunch of blue water or a funny colored rock under the water.

So this morning we all got up really early, because of the time change and got to the beach by like 9 am where it was.....raining nothing heavy but enough to be annoying. But Riss and I just walked down the beach and in about 10 min were out of the rain into the sun. COOL. So we packed up our stuff and moved south to a nice sunny beach and busted out the snorkel gear. I have never been snorkeling before and it was awsome, we saw loads of fish and a couple eels, after being there for a while we headed back to the condo for lunch, and Riss and I couldn't help ourselves but to throw back on the snorkel gear and head right out side our hotel and see if we could find those turtles... the snorkling is awsome out here too, no turtle sightings today but we still have 4 days. Riss has a water proof camera so I'll try and get some of that good stuff up too.

After lunch we went down to Airport Beach and grabbed the body boards and hit the surf, it took a while to get the hang of it, and find a spot that was deep enough that we weren't scraping across all the toxic coral like my sister and Sarah did. Ouch. But after a while we were getting waves pretty regularly. After a couple hours of that we came in to find everyone was, on some part of their body, sunburnt!! Pretty badly too. That spelled the end of the day on the beach and the start of the mass, aloe vera massage session. It's gonna be a long night. Oh well. Off to dinner now. Check out the pix!!

We'er There!

We made it to Sunny Maui, Hawaii about an hour ago we took a short trip around the Island and just got into the condo. Its pretty sweet check out this view.

Off too Hawaii!!

From the Start of the MTB National Championships in Mount Snow, VT

I head out to Hawaii tomorrow! I am so stoked!! Its going to be awesome. I am going with my mom, sister, my sisters friend Sarah, Clarissa and I. We are going to visit my Aunt and Uncle on Maui. Nothing is planned but I will have my computer and my camera and if I have internet I will do my best to put up some pix.

Chris took me on this killer ride today. About 55 miles and really fast, we went with Derek who is a really fast awesome rider in his own right. Those guys definetly rung me through the ringer, but it felt really good, it's nice to ride with guys that are faster than you and push you to get better, hopefully I can with them again soon. But I ain't gonna think about it until after Hawaii.

Oh yeah on a sour note I got my bike back from FedEx today and guess my luck they cracked my frame. Looks like their going to take care of it hopefully it won't take too long. Check out these pix!