Friday, August 1, 2008

Thursday July 31, 2008 Shinzen Day four Great America

This picture was actually taken at the end of a wet and wild day

Well we all had a hard time waking up on time to get to great america.
It was a tough start of the morning that got tougher. Hit traffic on Sunset Blvd,
Hit traffic at 101 until past Foster City (yea)arrived at GA at 10:35pm

We did not arrive too late to hold up the games but were met at the gate by Donna and Jennifer.


They started the day with a ballon toss
won by Chad and Haley


Then they had some other games which ended with a busting of a basketball pinata.




Lunch was all you could eat hamburgers, hot dogs and ice cream and soda.
Hiroya ate lunch with Brenden and Alex T and Takashi the baller




















After lunch they were allowed to ride rides and go to the prize area.
It was funny that some of the kids from Osaka did not like to ride rides, especially Yudai, who was very big for a 12 yr old.
Here is a picture of Brad and Yosuke on the Grizzly













Hiroya was supposed to ride with Bman but when we all got on the ride, instead of sitting in a seat he ran to the other side and this is a picture of him saying no

















Funniest part of the day is that all the younger Osaka YMCA boys did not like to ride rides so they spent most of their time at the basketball shooting area and had to have spent large coin on the game. They won over 20 balls. Brenden won Hiroya a Lakers Ball and that later on Hiroya won another three balls. one Celtics, Heat and Cavs at the smaller basketball hoop
Here are Yudai and Hiroya resting after dropping big coin



Here are Tomohide and Hirofumi with Hiroya and some of the balls





Ryan, Hiroya and Takumi waiting to take off on the last ride










These are the balls that Hiroya won, Brenden won the Lakers ball for him or so I was told. Hiroya kept this ball at the bottom of the backpack all day and every time Alex T or Brenden or Thomas would ask play with it he would rush over and protect it.
For the rest of the week he slept with the Laker ball.

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