good happy evening!! had a great day of diving today. left my house at 6am and came home at 7pm. a long day but 3 things happened….
1. we got a lot of fish.
2. i got a weeks of exercise.
3. the waves were small so i didn’t miss anything.
4. my new gun works really good. i think all the fish i caught with it today paid for itself….
5. and last, i’m happy again. this past month has been hard for me but i think i did a great job at being patient and now it’s time to make up for lost time. dive, surf, and eat fresh fish….


when kyle calls me to dive on his boat, i drop everything and go. the last time kyle took out his boat was 2 months ago when i got poked with the fish. yeah, the one that made me get hand surgery. it’s been that long since the diving conditions have been nice in hawaii. today was a perfect day and i couldn’t have picked a better time to fly home. thanks kyle and eric for taking me out, thanks mr. nakamoto for helping us with the boat, and thank you mrs. nakamoto for the wonderful warm saimin when we got back…

that’s dr. eric itoman on the left and kyle nakamoto on the right. 2 awesome divers. cool, mellow, and watching out for one another….

we caught a lot of fish today!!! the next 4 nights, i’m eating fish, fish, fish, and fish…
*tonight i’m sleeping early…..
**tomorrow i’m surfing all day long!!! hawaii saiko!!!

Takai kedo sakana mou takai!!!
Today ippai get shita!!! itadakimasu!!!

good morning. kyle called me last night and i was hesitant to answer the phone because i have soooo many things to do today. it’s 5am and i’m not up because i’m jet lagged, i’m up because i’m going diving. kyle asked me to go diving and i told him i’d have to think about it so give me 30 minutes to call back. i called him back in 5 minutes. i’m in!! i just couldn’t say no for many reasons.
1. i need to get back into the water.
2. i need to lose weight and exercise.
3. i want to try a new spear gun i bought a while ago.
4. the waves are small and there is no wind.
5. we’re going on kyle’s boat.
6. and i’m on a diet so i want to eat fresh fish all week.

i guess that’s good enough reasons right? well, i better get going. we’re going to look for big fish in the blue water, and some reef fish later. i got my 3 guns ready. dive today! surf tomorrow!! have a nice day..

i finally downloaded my photos from my cameras. got some awesome ones. most of them were taken at night. check this one out. this was our BEGIN after party at hokulea. we ate an awesome dinner and our party started right around 12 midnight. this is my favorite japanese drinking game. it’s called “ise no ichi.” we also played jun ken po. 2 teams were formed. takahashi-san team. and kimura-san team. luckily, i was on takahashi-san’s team. we won almost every game. kimura-san’s team had to drink over 10 shots of jacksan and we only had one. it was funny because kimura-san was trying to get me drunk so i will miss my flight the next morning. it never worked. haha….

then we celebrated satoru-san’s birthday by taking another jacksan shot. here is youichi-san and kazubo-san wishing satoru-san a happy okinawan birthday….
**about birthdays in okinawa. a few years ago, my birthday fell on a day i was in okinawa. i didn’t tell anyone. why? because i knew what would happen. the party doesn’t finish till the birthday boy goes down…. abunai….

the day i arrived in okinawa, there was a party at satoru-san’s house. it was his daughter teru-chan’s first birthday. that night got a little crazy too. so crazy that those ukon drinks and stuff didn’t work. anyway, wanted to wish satoru-san and teru-chan a happy birthday again[:??$B!^(B??????:]