My Surfing Adventure  by Chris Davies

	About two months ago I was sitting at my oceanfront house pondering
what to do since the waves were flat.  Then I saw this huge Carnival cruise
line ship go by and I couldn’t help but notice the size of the perfect peeling
rights and lefts that trailed the boat.   I was thinking, wow, that would be the
best if I could go out there and ride these waves.  From where I was it looked
like they were  a little overhead and even had the occasional barrel.  
	So after the ship was out of site I went to the travel agency to find out
the numbers to any big cruise lines.  I kinda knew they would all quickly
reject my offer to ride the wake but I was bored and it was worth a try.  So
first I called up the least known ships and they thought I was crazy and would
kill myself.  So when I got the big companies I thought that if the smaller ones
rejected me then the bigger ones definitely would.  Well, I was wrong. 
Carnival said that it sounded very interesting and that they would think about
it and call me back.  I was going nuts.  I couldn’t believe that they were
actually going to think about it.  As any person would, I went to my local surf
shop where I work and told them.  Obviously they didn’t believe me but
when I showed them the fax Carnival sent me they were astounded.  They
thought I was crazy yet a genius for coming up with this idea.  They asked me
when they were going to call me back and I told the about a week.  
	The whole week I could hardly sleep.  I couldn’t think about anything
else.  When Carnival called me I quickly thought that they rejected my idea
but to my suprise they thought that this would give them the most publicity
ever.  They were asking me where, when and how long I would want to do
this.  I came up with an idea though.  I thought since the wave never stops I
could try to make a world record about riding a wave the longest.  They
asked me what it currently was and I told them probably like an hour or
something.  Actually it was two hours and 43 minutes.  We also needed to
figure out how I was going to eat and drink and I figured out that I could get
one of those backpack hydration things and have pockets with some kind of
food in it.  I was hoping this would work so I went to my local break and
tried.  It took a little practice but I got it.  I was getting calls from everywhere
about sponsors and I decided to make Lost surfboards my board sponsor and
a bunch of other companies for the other ones.
	Since carnival was letting me do this for free I was getting tons of free
goods and money from everywhere.  This was the best time of my life.  I
decided to do this in August and in the Atlantic Ocean near my home state
Rhode Island.
	August came and almost every surfing company and magazines were
there.  I was the most popular surfer in the world now.  We had to figure out
how to get me out there and on the wave and also what to do in case I fall off. 
There will be photography boats everywhere and also rescue boats trailing
behind.  The day came and we were almost ready to do it.  It was kinda weird
that Rhode Island not known that well for surfing was full of every surfing
thing that you could imagine.  We were ready to go and I got onto the wave
and started riding it.  I chose the right since I am a regular foot.  At first it was
weird but come to think of it, it was the best wave I have ever ridden.  I
started even getting barrels.  I was getting thirsty so I decided to try to get a
drink.  That worked very well.  Everything was working the way we planned. 
About two hours and forty five minutes went by and I just broke the record.  I
was amazed.  I was getting really tired though and at about 3 hours and 50
minutes I just got  off and hopped into a boat.  I was the local hero.  Everyone
in the region knew about me and I even received a lifetime pay check from
Carnival cruise lines and Lost Surfboards for $50,000 a year!  I decided to
keep my job at the surf shop too and was set for life, all because I was bored
on a flat summer day and went for a dream, and it came true.






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