It is 5:52am on July 17th. It's my birthday today!!! It's interesting to decide what to do on a birthday!!! At the moment the tide is really high in the mornings  so I'm thinking High tide Jaco and hopefully filming with two of the pro kids. I actually find it really enjoyable to work with these kids and get to film them.  I happily give up an hour of my session to get their footage. Waves have been fun lately. Rainy season opened up the rivers along the beach and the sand bars have been peeling.  Often the swell is too big to surf out front so we trek with some friends to other waves in the area. Danielle's making cinnamon rolls this morning for me and I thought a fun thing to do would be to post a blog. I recently saw Nick Grosvenor's blog (Catchcamera.com) and it made me want to blog more.  Lately I have been painting a lot!!!! We moved to Las Olas and are doing a big mural for them as well as two paintings per room. That covers two months of rent and a meal a day for Danielle and I at their restaurant for the next two months. It's nice sitting at the restaurant since we rarely get to eat out.

I've been painting a whole lot because we need to put on an art show in the next couple weeks to buy new tickets back to RI. This is the longest stint we've stayed in Costa and the art show should cover the expenses of the tickets. We recently went down to the Panama border to stamp passports and also got to score Pavones. That was cool. I hadn't been there in four years or something like that. Kelly Slater has been coming to Costa every chance he can. He was down here just before the Jbay event started. Andy Irons, Julian Wilson, Yadin Nichols, Corey Lopez and a variety of other pros have been coming through here in the past month to train as well- we've collected some incredible footage. :)

Today is going to be a fun day. The backyard bar contest is on at 4pm so I will get to film all the kids going mental in the afternoon and today I will get to do so with a beer in hand. I Love birthdays!  filming, painting, and surfing... that is life right now.  We  need some new music to listen to- a favorite song listing would be cool too if anyone can send us one. Is anybody else following taylor steele's innersection? I just watched Torrey Meister's part recently... Sick!!!!  So was Marlon's. They both had songs I had never heard before that were really good. That's what I'm hoping someone can help us with. a few songs or bands that have stayed under the radar. That's all for now. I'll post some photos of some shots of life down here and we made a cute little film of the raven(our dog)- we made them for our parents, but I think you guys will like them.  Enjoy