Breakfast & Earthquakes

It was a good weekend. On Saturday Danny and I had some friends over for breakfast and football watching. There's nothing like giant pancakes and blue hash browns (not sure how that happened) to get the morning started. Breakfast spilled over into some body boarding/races around the buoys at Kailua beach.

This morning began with a little earthquake. A little after 7:00am the house started shaking. No serious damage, just some pictures falling over and about 37 seconds of shakiness. I was pretty surprised that the clock hanging in the bathroom fell from the wall to the top of the toilet and not into it. It's a big clock (about a foot across) and couldn't have been flushed. Someone would have had to go in for it.

Fifteen minutes later the power went out and stayed out for 12 hours. It made for a pretty good day. We went to Kailua Beach for an hour and on the walk home got some free ice cream from the wiki (wiki = convenient store). Instead of throwing it away they gave it away. Free ice cream tastes way better than bought ice cream. Maybe it wasn't that it was free, but the fact that all I had to eat all day was cold Spaghetti-Os and uncooked muffin batter that made it good. Doesn't matter: it was good either way.
















All in all we had some good times. Between swimming and scrounging for food we had some time to entertain ourselves with some guitar playing and napping.

It was starting to seem like we may have an evening of candlelight and quiet reading, but around 7:30pm the power came back on to the cheers of all the neighbors. In the end, electricity isn't so bad. It kept me from eating a dinner of condensed cream of mushroom soup out of a can.