{"id":63790,"date":"2016-01-24T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=63790"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:08:36","slug":"kirby-boot-camp-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=63790","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Boot Camp Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i picked up Koike-san this morning and asked him &#8220;did you sleep well?&#8221;  he said &#8220;yeah, i slept at 6pm last night and got up at 6:30am this morning.&#8221;  i said &#8220;good, because we are going to surf the north shore!&#8221;  he said &#8220;what???&#8221;  and i wasn&#8217;t joking.  it&#8217;s day 2 of boot camp and basic training is over.  now we are going to the front line to fight!  i wish i took a photo of his face jumping in my car thinking we are going to surf small waves in town.  he was so happy until i mentioned north shore.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5251\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63792\" \/><br \/>\napproaching the north shore makes every surfer nervous.  Koike-san was silent just looking at the ocean.  i could tell he was nervous but i asked him anyway, &#8220;are you nervous?&#8221;  he said &#8220;yes.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5254.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5254\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63791\" \/><br \/>\nwe pull up to laniakea and the waves were epic!  perfect 4&#8242; and flawless.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5255.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5255\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63800\" \/><br \/>\ni didn&#8217;t want to watch the waves too long because i knew there would be some big sets approaching.  so i said &#8220;hurry, let&#8217;s go!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-24-at-10.23.58-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-24 at 10.23.58 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63798\" \/><br \/>\nwe were about to paddle out and i could tell Koike-san was so nervous.  i still remember my first time out there and i didn&#8217;t even want to get out of the car.  i told him &#8220;just sit right next to me and you will be fine.&#8221;  not to sure if he believed me or not.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-24-at-10.25.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-24 at 10.25.19 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63803\" \/><br \/>\nsome amazing creatures in the ocean.  so much wildlife.  i just love it!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-24-at-10.28.23-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-24 at 10.28.23 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63799\" \/><br \/>\nand so many fish too.  these fish were so close i could have grabbed them with my hands.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5263.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5263\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63801\" \/><br \/>\nwill get into our military surf session later, but after we had an awesome time, we went to eat hulihuli chicken.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5273.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5273\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-63794\" \/><br \/>\nonly on weekends so we where lucky.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5270.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5270\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63793\" \/><br \/>\nwent to eat it at haleiwa while watching the waves.  gosh, it was so beautiful there too!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5274.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5274\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63795\" \/><br \/>\nKoike-san told me &#8220;i don&#8217;t want to go home.&#8221;  haha. i told him &#8220;you&#8217;re not the only one that says that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5264.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5264\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63796\" \/><br \/>\nhaleiwa finally reopened to the public.  they didn&#8217;t find any of the 12 missing marines.  pretty sad to look out in the ocean and think about it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_5262.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5262\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63802\" \/><br \/>\nthe traffic is still crazy if you go to the north shore too late.  i feel sorry for the people living out there.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/web1_20160120_vida_tower_sales.jpg\" alt=\"web1_20160120_vida_tower_sales\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-63797\" \/><br \/>\ni heard some good news last night!  the new luxury condominium project they were going to build near ala moana got cancelled.  they couldn&#8217;t sell enough units to they just stopped moving forward.  i&#8217;m happy to hear that!  maybe they won&#8217;t build anymore of them.  instead of making small luxury condos that start at $1M, they should build affordable housing for normal local people.  it just makes more sense.  that&#8217;s what i would do if i were rich.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i picked up Koike-san this morning and asked him &#8220;did you sleep well?&#8221; he said &#8220;yeah, i slept at 6pm last night and got up at 6:30am this morning.&#8221; i said &#8220;good, because we are going to surf the north shore!&#8221; he said &#8220;what???&#8221; and i wasn&#8217;t joking. it&#8217;s day 2 of boot camp and [&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-63790","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\/63790","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=63790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}