Nov 15th- Finding our balance

No howlers around so we slept a little longer, maybe until 6 or so. We had our surf lesson at 9am, so we got up to shower and have some breakfast. It was $50/pp for a semi-private lesson, as there was one other girl joining us. They said it would be about a few hours, depending on conditions. We chose Tico Surf because they were right next to Lo Que Hay where we spent nearly every meal and they seemed nice. The boards also looked like they were in decent shape compared to other surf schools on the beach. Here are some pics from their FB page:

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On our walk over we saw a stray horse just wandering down the road grazing

We arrived a little before 9, Pablo was there and Paco arrived shortly after (our instructor). Paco has been surfing for 30 years, so he explained everything about balance, popping up, 3 different ways to get up, board & water safety, & how to fall properly. We had about 30 minutes of instruction on land then we took our boards to the water. I didn’t use the action cam as I don’t have a chest mount and they didn’t have board mounts. It was our first time, I’m sure you would have mainly just been under water the whole time anyways lol

It took us a few tries to get up, but we both managed. We definately need to work on our flexability and faster pop ups, but it was a blast! We were in the water for just over an hour, that was enough for us. It gets tiring when you are out of shape and I can only take so much salt water up my nose;)

It was just after 11 when we came out of the water, we rinsed the salt water off and grabbed a table at Lo Que Hay for a cerveza and lunch. They had shrimp pasta for $8 lunch special, so we both had that. We came back to the hotel for a few hours, I thought we could hang out in the pool, but they had it closed for cleaning. So we just did a bit more work to escape the hot sun, and thought we may head to a different beach front restaurant for dinner.

Here are some random pictures;

We wanted to catch the sunset at the beach,but we keep missing it or it’s cloudy…the cliff is in the way as well. It was around 5 when we walked down to the beach, we were going to try this fancier place next to Lo Que Hay, but it was Italian (we just ate pasta), more expensive and cash only. Back to Lo Que Hay! We found our usual table and had a few cervezas, then we decided to order our food to-go and relax at the hotel. Jay got some nachos and I ordered a chicken quesadilla. There are only ever a few servers working and although our server was running around, it is still super slow service. You have to flag them down when you want to order anything. But you can’t beat the views or the cheap prices, and we are on vacation so it didn’t bother us.  We were there for almost 3 hours and just took our food back to the hotel to relax, as we were headed out to Montezuma in the morning around 8am;)