{"id":43901,"date":"2014-04-01T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=43901"},"modified":"2014-04-01T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:25:51","slug":"new-kid-surfer-on-the-block-saimin-pho-amasan-sharks-shells-and-the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=43901","title":{"rendered":"New Kid Surfer on the Block, Saimin Pho, Amasan, Sharks, Shells, and The Waiting Game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-51-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"photo 51\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43904\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthank you Takami-san for sending me this amazing photo of Mt. Fuji!  i can&#8217;t wait to see her in the next few days!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.26.03-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.26.03-PM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-04-01 at 5.26.03 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43907\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOMG, this morning session was so fun.  i love taking kids surfing, especially for the first time.  Yugo-kun is 6 years old and so cute!  just to see his smile when we were going over the waves was so funny.  i told him &#8220;isn&#8217;t this more fun than disneyland?&#8221;  he said &#8220;yes!&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.24.49-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.24.49-PM-640x423.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-04-01 at 5.24.49 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43910\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis kid was very brave.  just stood up from the first wave.  we actually fell off but i think he was too shocked to be scared because i was just laughing and laughing.  so he started laughing too.  then i asked him &#8220;one more?&#8221;  he said &#8220;yes!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.09.58-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-04-01-at-5.09.58-PM-640x323.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-04-01 at 5.09.58 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43908\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand his father Kishi-san just enjoying surfing so much.  his first wave he got up and rode it all the way.  super good balance and style!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43909\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen we were so hungry and Yugo-kun wanted to eat saimin.  instead, i took them to my favorite vietnam saimin, PHO!  i couldn&#8217;t believe the kid at the whole bowl!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P3290201.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P3290201.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43905\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni took Yumi-chan snorkeling the other day.  she couldn&#8217;t surf, snorkel, and barely swim when i first met her.  now, she&#8217;s a great surfer and a great free diver.  the next amasan?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P3290192.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P3290192.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43906\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter we surfed perfect waves with nobody out this afternoon, we went to see if my pet shark was home.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GOPR0148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GOPR0148.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43903\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyes, he was home as usual.  gosh, i think i should name this white tip shark.  what do you think?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-52.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-52-640x448.jpg\" alt=\"photo 52\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43902\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand Yumi-chan is also an expert shell diver.  snorkeling around and finding this beauty yesterday.  we did some yoga surfing and the photos are pretty funny.  will post it tomorrow.<br \/>\nomg, it&#8217;s almost midnight and i still have to pack, book my flight, and hope to get on a very full airplane.  tomorrow starts the waiting game and what ever happens, happens.  see you either in japan, or in hawaii.  either way, i&#8217;m happy!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thank you Takami-san for sending me this amazing photo of Mt. Fuji! i can&#8217;t wait to see her in the next few days! OMG, this morning session was so fun. i love taking kids surfing, especially for the first time. Yugo-kun is 6 years old and so cute! just to see his smile when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}