good morning everybody welcome to the
channel today we're going to be
uh experiencing some bonnie
so uh what a savannah is well you know
what
let's just get through this and i'll
tell you exactly what we're doing today
thanks for joining me
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yes
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you excited
yeah
a little bit come
on so today unlike my superstar wife
who's on a dragon boat team
i get to go on i'm not going to paddle
because i'm going to videotape but i
want to show you the experience of what
it's like to be on a dragon boat here in
okinawa this is at shuri castle and
they're opening this up for everybody
you pay 500 yen
um i think it's a fundraiser and you're
able to go on the boat
i miss my streak and everybody here is
pretty cool
it's a small little course
a lot of ducks and a lot of kids doing
it today so it's gonna be a lot of fun
and they got the water safety jet ski
guys
so we're here on the dragon boat and
everybody is actually paddling we're
trying to stay in time with the uh the
drummer
having a little trouble
make this work
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thank you
so dragon boating's been around a very
long time
uh here in okinawa it's really a
tradition starts uh the summer boat
season is really big they bring in teams
from all over the island and sometimes
even mainland
you can uh guarantee that on the weekend
there's a big party for a dragon boat
festival even though the pandemics kind
of quieted things down
they're still trying to keep the
tradition alive
with restrictions and this is a great
opportunity for everybody to come on out
and actually try
what it and see what it's like to uh
paddle and it's actually pretty cool
oh this is a circle i see
my little buddy's got his own little
cheering section over there
now over there those are the yasha
dragons okinawa i will put a link to all
the videos that i've done with them
in the description so you can see them
and it is just uh it's an amazing team
of women
and the causes are men and they're just
a a fun fun group and i think you really
enjoy their videos
uh we did a six series video on races so
enjoy that it's in the link and i'll try
to put one on the screen right now
so this is a really fun opportunity for
everybody
to get a chance at what it's like to
feel what it's like to be paddling in a
real dragon boat maybe not a dragon boat
race per se but a dragon boat
nevertheless and it's a it's been a
really fun time here this morning and i
know the girls are going to go on soon
and we'll get that as well
they're really fast we're really slow
they should be able to do this in like
20 seconds a lap but we'll see what
their time is
we are just enjoying a nice leisurely
paddle
in this lake here at on shuri castles
grounds and it's pretty amazing
many of you know or maybe you don't know
shuri castle was destroyed uh by a fire
tragic fire after they just finished uh
rebuilding and remodeling and just doing
everything they could and it was one of
the biggest tourist attractions here in
okinawa so
this uh cebani or little dragon boat
thing where you pay 500 yen to get on
and paddle around this little lake here
is actually a fundraiser to help with
the rebuilding of shari castle shuri
castle like i said was one of the
premier uh sites the oldest castles a
lot of history here in okinawa a lot of
people had pride in shari castle that's
the first place we win if you if you
look back on my videos you'll see one of
the very first videos uh we did was on
cherie castle because that's the very
first place you have to go there in the
ferris wheel you know in american
village but cherry castle is really the
place that we bring all our visitors all
our friends that were able to visit
prior to prior to the pandemic
and it's just amazing how the community
pulls together and has these little
fundraisers and and helps to rebuild the
castle to its former glory now as i said
earlier the yasha dragons okinawa team
was here so they decided to go out and
paddle around the lake as well
and we actually caught up with their
coach kristen and got her to talk to us
a little bit about what this event means
to them okay so we were invited to come
out here today to paddle in a dragon
boat on this pond by sherry castle it's
a fundraiser for sherry castle to
help with the rebuilding of it
and we were very honored to be asked to
come down here because it's probably one
of the first
dragon boat events on the island and
we were happy to be able to give back to
the community and be able to give back
and at least help
rebuild sheree castle which we know is
so important to the people of okinawa
and um and to us as well it's just a way
for us as a team to be able to come and
give back to the community that gives so
much to us
with dragon boat
i had a blast here it's really fun my
wife's on a drag boat team you know that
i do the dragon boat video so it was
kind of fun to be in the boat and uh
videotaping my son paddling a lot a lot
of fun a lot of really good times and
memories happening here today so by the
way thanks again for over 3000 of you
subscribing to my channel uh
thank you i don't know what else to say
i can't believe you there's three
thousand you really wanna watch this
face but i appreciate you and everything
uh you do and with that said we heard a
rumor there might be something going on
on the main grounds of sheree castle so
we decided to take a walk up there and
see what we could find you know we just
came here for the dragon boat to help
raise money for shuri castle but we
decided why not we're here we might as
well go and see what's going on
so as you can see the grounds here on uh
shurikas are really nice and there's a
whole bunch of crazy people
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a bunch of crazy people just because the
castle burned down doesn't mean they're
still aren't having festivals and they
still aren't having certain events
today we have the dragon boat paddle in
the lake to raise money for the
reconstruction of sheree castle and
actually we lucked out because a local
told us you know they're having like
kind of a small festival up top by the
base of the castle so we just came out
here
and you can see they've got a food truck
set up you've got some cotton candy and
a stage i guess those are instruments
they're probably going to use
but they've got the uh coordinators back
there
everybody back there they got the stage
got a couple of gongs here i love these
little food trucks
you can always get a good meal here here
they have
some trinkets you can get from cherry
castle
and you've got the cotton candy in the
bag
400 bucks for the cotton candy 400 yen
sorry not dollars that'd be the most
expensive cotton candy ever it seems
like a great place to come still even
though
they had the fire even though
they're in the rebuilding process it's
definitely worth a visit or some
exhibits still are available you can go
into the main part of where the castle
was see
the part that unfortunately burned but
you can also see the other parts of the
castle that did not burn down please if
you're here on okinawa visit sri castle
give a little to help rebuild
mango shaved ice mango shaved ice would
you get sofia
soda
hawaiian blue
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so we're just having a good time here
today
we're gonna wrap things up and uh head
out for lunch even though i think uh he
may not want lunch but i'm starving
so i just want to thank you guys and
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time thanks so much for watching
everybody see you later
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