It was a typically Monday night, we had scriptures, FHE and were just unwinding for the night. We decided to catch up on our Bones Episodes. Then at 10:01 or somewhere close everything goes pitch and I mean PITCH black. The Hales have absolutely no back up lighting and no back up anything. Girls started screaming and trying to find lights. Turns out the entire BYU Hawaii campus was blacked out but as soon as you left the campus everything was fine. I learnt today that it was a broken transformer in the physical plant.... Anyways I have to swing into motion, so we pull out these amazing canteen lights we have and set them up by the stairs and entryway. Girls were seriously coming up to me in the masses asking "Is this a drill?" I was like "??? No so be careful." I think my whole Hale must have ended up at Foodland because that is most of what I heard whispered as they left, we had to keep a cap on the screaming although most of it was friends scaring friends. Joe and I and Hinalei sat in the front Entrance to make sure no uninvited guests were coming in. It was so much fun watching Hinalei interact with the residents and I was being majorly corny trying to say things like "Be safe. Don't do anything your mum wouldn't approve of."...lol... apparently I had it sweet compared to some of the Hales (with girls running through guys hales and guys running through girls hale... Lucky me. Then miraculously the lights came back on at like 11:56pm. So awesome! We went and did a bed check to ensure no guys got past and it was the bed check we ever had.... NO ILLEGAL GUESTS and for those of you that know the Hale that is a big thing!
OF course the power did go out again at 1am but by then most of the girls were in bed so we didnt stress to much we just see the canteens back up to make sure they could find their way around.... all in all it was the MOST exciting thing that has happened in LAIE since the Fail Tsunami.
Doing her favorite thing, splashing in puddles and smiling cheese for the camera!
