{"id":88009,"date":"2018-02-21T15:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88009"},"modified":"2018-02-21T15:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T06:44:29","slug":"best-amusement-park-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=88009","title":{"rendered":"Best Amusement Park in the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>another 3 round surfing day totaling 6 hours.  started early morning surfing Diamond Head.  it was so dam good!!!  perfect long rides in the air!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.54.13-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"727\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>round 2 was Father and Son.  this is 7 year old Hoku-kun&#8217;s first time watching Papa Miwazawa-san surfing the long lefts!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.49.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88013\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then it was our turn.  this boy was totally focused!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.49.24-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88012\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoku-kun&#8217;s first ride of his life!  he just popped up and kept looking forward.  good boy!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.50.08-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88014\" \/><\/p>\n<p>he was so stoked when we completed the ride perfectly.  Hoku-kun&#8217;s face was glowing!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.51.51-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"724\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88015\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then he wanted more and more.  before we paddled out, he said he wanted to ride 5 waves.  but we ended up riding 15 waves!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.52.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"833\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88016\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so cool because everybody went in and it was only us.  Miyazawa-san riding the long lefts to himself.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.53.49-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88017\" \/><\/p>\n<p>about an hour into our session, i caught a big wave and the both of us flipped over.  so i grabbed Hoku-kun while we were tumbling underwater.  i could feel the kid freaking out but as soon as we popped up, i looked into his freaked out eyes and said &#8220;OMG, that was the best ride ever!  even better than Disneyland!!!&#8221;  he looked puzzled, the a few seconds after, he smiled.  and then he wanted more!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.55.15-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88018\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so cool to share these kind of experiences.  Hoku-kun is about the same age my Step-Father took me tandem surfing for the first time.  it&#8217;s one of those memories that is still is etched in my heart forever.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.56.34-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>all the 3 of us sharing one wave.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-2.52.05-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88020\" \/><\/p>\n<p>good boy Hoku-kun.  you did great!  i&#8217;m so proud of your bravery and after today, i know you will be a strong boy!  have fun at Tokyo Disneyland but now i think you realize that todays rides will beat any ride there.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_2419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>started in the ocean at sunrise.  couldn&#8217;t believe how perfect DH was!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-3.05.07-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and ended it at sunset with Toshi-san.  many more photos and stories coming tomorrow.  but for now, i must sleep because tomorrow will be 3 more rounds at 7 hours.  good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another 3 round surfing day totaling 6 hours. started early morning surfing Diamond Head. it was so dam good!!! perfect long rides in the air! round 2 was Father and Son. this is 7 year old Hoku-kun&#8217;s first time watching Papa Miwazawa-san surfing the long lefts! then it was our turn. this boy was totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88009","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\/88009","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=88009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}