Black Friday
So on Friday I was supposed to work. Turns out that Nina is wonderful and fabulous and insisted that I take the day off, so twist my arm... I did.
Spent the day shopping. Cutie Pie was w/Gramps, so I was whine-free for the day. Woohoo! Missed him like crazy, of course, but I did enjoy myself. We hit Macy's and Ala Moana. Ate at Cinamon's and had Chinese food for lunch.
Last stop was Walmart and Sam's Club. Walmart was crazy crowded, but Trini really wanted to go. Got through okay, but when we hit the parking lot the entire parking lot went black. Yikes. We looked into the stores and the lights were still on. Sam's Club next. While there the lights went out inside the store. They told all the members to come to the front of the club, but they couldn't check anyone out because no power=no registers working. We hung out for a few minutes, then decided to leave. About half the store had left already. I felt sorry for all the employees, because I'm sure people had a lot of refrigerated items in their carts that were just left out. At least we told a lady we were leaving and Trini gave her the eggos and pie she was buying so that they could put it back in the freezer.
Getting out of the lot and home was a different story. The streets were really crowded. Ala Moana was closed and so was everywhere else and I guess people were just trying to get home. Turns out that the blackout was almost island-wide, except for Kapolei and Makakilo and Obama's vacation home. There were homeless people, marines and police officers directing traffic at the major intersections, but people are CRAZY drivers and don't know the meaning of 4-way stop. Took us over 40 minutes to get out of the traffic mess and onto the Pali. From there it was pretty smooth.
After I got home and reunited with my Cutie, we just hung out until bedtime. Power came back up at 5:45 Saturday morning. Woohoo! Trini's power didn't come back up until noon. Guess it helps us to be on the same power grid as Obama, although his grid was not the first to come back up. What's up with that? I thought he was all-powerful, but I guess not enough to stop Mother Nature or sway the electricity gods.
Guess it really was a black Friday after all... ha ha ha
My mood: good