Adventures in Hawaii Part 1 - Power Outage

Hawaii is a very dear state to me. Almost like a third home, since I've been there every year but last for anywhere from one to two weeks. That is 19 years in all. The islands I've been on are Oahu, Hawaii, and Kawai. From being in Hawaii that much, I've had several adventures. One I'd like to talk about in particular was quite fun, and President Obama was on the island somewhere.

The night started out normally, with making dinner. We were making white rice with some Americanized-version-of-Chinese-food dish, which I think was General Tso's but I'm not completely sure. All the ingredients had been chopped and everything was prepared. The rice was on the stovetop cooking. Abruptly, the power went off. Uh oh! We made a quick decision in what we would do. And we chose that the show must go on, rather the cooking must go on. So we did, but how?

We always stayed at a hotel with two grills, the ones with propane tanks on them, not connected to a gas line. Ergp, we transferred the entrée and the white rice to the grill. But, all the lights went out. How were we to see? We used out iPods, we would've used candles but our hotel did not allow us to burn candles, I guess it was something with a Fire code or something. Thank god for chargeable technology! We successfully cooked dinner that night. With all the dinner and rice cooked, we took the food to our room, a two bedroom, two bathroom room with a kitchen.

By then, we had had a cooler with ice (from minutes before the power outage) and cans of Hawaiian Sun's Strawberry-Guava and Pass-O-Guava nectars as well as some beers. We ate dinner to the very calming lights of five pre-charged Nintendo DS's and two pre-charged MacBooks, stationed perfectly around the room. After that, the power outage party began. Someone turned some Techno music on on their iPod touch very loudly. We broke out the Strawberry-Guava and Pass-O-Guave nectars, for the underagers (which included me) and beers. My brother had a camera that had the ability to shoot five frames per second, we used this as a strobe light. We all danced until we all were tired and went to bed.

The next morning, when the power was all back on, we learned that President Barack Obama was staying on the island and that his compound's power was also out. However, they used generators. It is so much more fun to use iPods, iPhones, Nintendo DS's, and MacBooks!

This happened late December of 2008.