Lex's Birthday, and our first kite-surfing lessons !

Today is a first : It's Lex's birthday and the weather is nice ! No falling leaves, no autumn storms, no rain, no overcast and no winter looming. The weather is nice, it's warm today ( it feels like 27 degrees ) and there's a blue sky as far as we can see. Kim bought me some thongs for my birthday, nice leather ones that feel really comfy, I'll be wearing those a lot around here. Now before you think I turned gay and like wearing leather underwear in public : Thongs = slippers = flip flops = shoe wear, not female underwear.

Today is also the day that we will have our first kite-surfing lesson ! Well, hopefully anyway because the wind needs to pickup a little bit. If there's no wind, we'll have to postpone it to another day : It's in the hands of the wind-gods at the moment. Kim and I are both going to try it out, see if it's something that we'd like doing as a sport around here. We need to do something in the water we're pretty sure about that, and fishing isn't exactly our cup of tea. When you mention kite-surfing around here they all say "sure is an extreme sport, that". Not quite sure what they mean with that but what better way to find out than to try it for ourselves I say. People in Europe say that snowboarding and motor riding are "extreme" too, and we like doing both, I presume this will be the same. I might be positively surprised though and it might really be an extreme sport, something that I personally look forward to. It will be nice to be doing some outdoor sport activities again after years of sitting on the couch watching the gray skies from inside the house in Europe.