Costa Rica Family Trip - Day 4 (Part 2 of 4)

The main plan for the day was to get these two some surfing lessons.  This was the first time these guys have had ever had surfing lessons and there was a big surfing shop (Iguana Surf) right off the beach about a block from our Airbnb.

We got sorted for a half day lesson with a personal instructor.  He first took them across to the beach and walked them through everything.

Then it was some time for some dry land training.  They would practice paddling on the sand and then popping up on the surf boards.  Gavin was a lefty so he naturally would be facing the opposite way as Gage.  This instructor was awesome, though, as he was hamming it up with the guys all morning long.

Now was the time to put all these lessons into action.  They instructor waded out in the water with them and then helped launch them onto some great sized waves for learning.  The first to get up was Gage in the picture above.  He seemed to be a natural at this!

Gavin took a bit more practice to finally get up, as seen above with his first wave of the day!  They both eventually got the hang of it and spent several hours just catching wave after wave.  It was awesome to watch.

Toward the end of the morning, these guys were pretty wiped and retreated to the comfort of our towels and shade umbrella.  Tara also got convinced by some beach salesguy to buy a virgin pina colada in an actual pineapple husk.  The kicker was that she bargained this guy to give her free refills on it for the day while we were at the beach...something apparently that wasn't so kosher with his coworkers when we tried later to redeem the free refill.  In the end they honored the guarantee but weren't too please about it!