Look what we found!

Yesterday was pretty much a TV-tourism day - we found the Lost wreckage (sadly, it has been moved off the beach and put into storage, but still, HOW FREAKING COOL IS THIS?), saw the waves at the North Shore (which are in many surf movies), poked around Kualoa Ranch (where parts of Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Windtalkers, and Lost were/are shot), and went to the Puu Ualakaa Park lookout featured on The Amazing Race. You may all think I'm a total geek, but damn, those Hollywood producers know what they are doing when they pick out gorgeous locations. The Puu Ualakaa lookout gave us a gorgeous view of Diamond Head and the Punchbowl. Also, when we were poking around for the Lost site, another couple asked us if we knew where it was, so we're not the only geeks out here.

We are going back to Kualoa Ranch today, as I hadn't realized you need a reservation to get on the movie set tour. Also up this afternoon - Halona blowhole, Pali lookout, and who knows what else.

We took our surf lessons this morning, and that is hard work! The surfing part isn't that bad, but the paddling yourself out to where the waves are is pretty tough. No wonder surfers have such great arms! Matt did a great job, he figured out how to get up pretty quickly and looked pretty good doing it. I wasn't so hot (I ran into a couple other people!) but I had a really great time and even got up on my board two or three times. There is a company that goes out and takes pictures of you during the lessons, so we're going to swing by there tonight and see if any turned out. I probably have a terrified look on my face, since I think the one time I got up really well and the photographer was there, I was about to run into a girl who didn't get out of the way fast enough (people surfing, rather than paddling out, have the right-of-way).

I am having such a great time!