Aloha Everyone,
Most of you reading this are engaged or about to get married, This is my story how i met my wife. Pretty cool story, not a prince charming story, but different.

I was spring cleaning today and started to take out all the junks in the downstairs closet. We put all of the surfboards in there, good thing we checked, i thought i sold on of my magic surfboards, that was in there all this time.

Anyway, there was that old yellow 6’3″ local motion surfboard shaped by Pat Rawson, photo above with wife holding the board, in the board bag just lying there and hasn’t been ridden for about 10 years.

It all started in around Oct, 1997 when a Japanese girl and a friend from work decided to come to Hawaii for a vacation. At the time i was working at the Local Motion surf shop on Kapiolani, (there is a Quiksilver boardriders there now). I was the typical surfer guy and only thing on my mind was what time i was getting off to go surfing.

Just so happen this Japanese girl wanted to buy a surfboard, because she thought that bodyboarding wasn’t fun anymore. So guess where they decided to go to buy there boards.

A typical day at work, and i see these two japanese girls walk in, thinking nothing of it, i figure they are here to buy some “omigai” t-shirts gifts for there friends.

they came over by the boards and started looking at the board saying some stuff in japanese, at the time i didn’t know any japanese, except for arigatou and konichiwa. I figure they were going to buy a board for someone else or their boyfriend. At the time surfboards were really cheap in Hawaii compared to Japan, about half the price, a board in Japan was about $1200.00.

So i tried to help them with the very little broken japanese and their broken english. As i was helping them i thought to myself, wow this little japanese girl is cute, while trying to help out as much as i can, and trying to communicate in anyway possible.

this was going nowhere fast, good thing my co-worker came in “Toshi” he was a american japanese native and spoke both perfect japanese and english. they ended up buying the boards. While we were setting up the boards,  i asked Toshi to tell them if the want go surfing together, since they were beginners and the veterans that we were, LOL, we were perfect for the job.

She said “yes” and we took them surfing for the first time. that was it, 10 years later married, with a lovely daughter, not surfing as much as would want to, but we still have the board I sold to her and it’s a special reminder how we first met.

I asked my wife, why she bought the board and she said ” i like the color yellow”

So watch out girls, the next time a guy offers you to take you surfing, he might be your future husband. haha.

Thanks for reading, have a good week.