Ohio and Back.

This past weekend was a blast. I got out of school on thursday and headed down to crash in Portland for the night before flying out. Hung out at the Holden office with Nate and Katie for a minute then grabbed some food at ChaChaCha's. Woke up the next morning and headed up to the airport. I arrived in Cleveland around 6pm and got picked up by my dad. Hung out at my parents for dinner and caught up with how everything's been going. Borrowed my brothers old car and headed towards Kent. At this point noone really knew that i was going to be in town. I got a call from Zach asking what i was getting into after he heard from Brian who heard from my sister that i was going to be in town. I found out Julia and Sans were up working at Susans so decided to head up there before it closed. It was pretty funny having Sans nonchalantly walk by the door and say "oh hey what's up" before a soild second went by when he dropped the mop and was like "wait a second..." haha. After hanging with them for a minute, decided to drop by Tony and Cody's with Sans. There was a similar reaction when i walked through their door... Went up to the Zephyr and hung out with a bunch of people. It was real good seeing everyone. I was surprised how many people were out, including the twins who were in town for Josh's wedding. Went back to my old place and crashed there for the night. It was rad hanging with Artemis.

Saturday woke up and skated for a little bit at the Ravenna skatepark. Met up with Julia, Brian, Rebbecca, Tony, Cody, Josh, Ian and Bob at El Camp. Headed up to the premiere afterwards. It was a super good time. All smiles turned out way good. Kevin worked so hard on it and everything came together so well. Seeing the final version of Technicolor was rad. Mark and the Porters rule. It was awesome seeing the usual premiere crowd, Pete was hanging out. Just seeing everyone from Ohio in general was a great time. I got to lay down some three doors down vocals too... Hit up the after party for a minute before driving back to my parents house and flying back to Portland on zero sleep. Hung out in Portland with Nate and Evan, then came back up to the peninsula and passsssed out.

Tuesday i got back in the water, and holy crap... Waikiki was surfable. It was kind of crazy and all over the place, but the waves had some pretty good form to them when you caught a good one. Aside from Michael, Darren, Travis, and i there were about four other people out there with us. Everyone was saying it should have been way better but it was still a good time, and we got a good session going. I hopped out of the water for a little bit to snap some pictures. Waikiki is perfect for photos because it's a cove and you can walk out on some logs/rocks so that you're parallel with the rider. The photos turned out pretty well for the first time shooting surfing.


The backdrop of Waikiki, waiting for a set of waves to roll in...


Michael dropping in...


Travis


Michael


Michael


Michael grabbed the camera and i got a shot... thanks Michael.