Day 13 - Ace Ventura

Note: Don't forget to check out Day 12, which has also just been posted!

Following a very comfortable nights sleep, we awoke in high spirits for the day ahead. And shortly later, the spirits were raised even higher by a splendid breakfast of lucky charms (a sweet-tasting cereal sensation... possibly a little too sweet for first thing in the morning however), toasted bagels, sausages, eggs and bacon... washed down with a glass (or two) of orange juice. Delicious food? Shocker!

Once the energy baskets had been filled and frisbee garments donned, we headed down to the beach to meet up with the rest of the freestylers. The event is the 'Aloha Beach Festival'; a festival promoting healthy lifestyles with a focus on beach sports that is organised by freestyle legend Chipper "Bro" Bell. Along with freestyle frisbee... canoeing, kite surfing, regular surfing, frisbee dogs and live band performances are the other main sports/attractions. We first bumped into Doug and Mark, both of whom we had jammed with just two days ago in Santa Cruz. Shortly after we were joined Dan Cameronesi, John Weyand (or 'Z' to the freestyle community), Billy and the Schiller family (Dave, Amy & Brady). After an entertaining demonstration by Dave & Chipper in the grass performance area, we all went down to the beach a for a jam. The tide was on the rise but we still ended up having a good 2 hours of shredding time (in the language of disc, shredding = play freestyle successfully and continually). The experience of playing with these extremely talented artists was a cherished one, and something that we won't forget in a long time.

Once food had been digested we trooped back over to the grass area infront of the main stage for the event and took the opportunity to spend an hour or so showing our stuff to the dazzled public. We soon adapted to the dire wind which was swirling and changing tempo in a UK-style fashion, and pulled off many a hot combo under pressure.

A further hour was spent relaxing around the festival locale, before we all made a valiant attempt to move our jam back to the beach. The wind had completely lost the plot (having quadroupled in speed), and the tide wasn't doing much better - hence the required valiance. John sumarised this well as an "interesting experience" but both J's fully supported the suggestion to call it a day after about 10 minutes.




After saying au revoir to the other freestylers, ourselves, the Schillers and Dan drove back to our hotel. There, Dave, Amy & Dan were kind enough to spend some time chatting to us for our still-secret DiscCast specials that are to be released towards the end of the year. The J's then primped (any opportunity...) while the others took a dip in the hotel hot tub and swimming pool.

Before long, hunger was upon us, so we all walked over to a local sports bar called 'Rookees' where we also met up with Mark. Predictably, a delicious meal ensued. John went for a 'Wet Chicken Burrito' which turned out to be monster sized but exceedingly good, and Joe opted for the less risky but equally fulfilling 'Californian Chicken Melt'. We had a fantastic evening and enjoyed the chance to get to know everyone a lot better. Once the merry group could eat no more, we walked back to the hotel where the Schillers & Dan hopped into their automobile to head home for the night (Dan lives nearby) and the J's headed inside the realm of luxury.




The remainder of the evening at the hotel was spent doing laundry, writing blogs and chatting to a couple of local Californian girls who we seem to have bumped into several times during our short stay here.

Now we must say goodbye for another day,
"Goodbye".

The J Duo