Lights Out

 

The lights went out last night....actually there was a blackout throughout the island.  It's been so hot that  everyone was running air conditioners and it must have overloaded the system. We ended up without power for about three hours.

With each power outage we get better prepared.  This time we had a battery operated fan, oil lamps, and charged battery backup. We already had flashlights, head lamps, and candles.

It was so still and hot during the blackout.  There was no breeze and what little breeze we had was not coming through the patio.  We moved operations out to the pool area.  We needed to get our minds off of being hot and having no power.  I was dreading sleeping if we didn't have air conditioning.

You have to make your own good times when you are faced with a dark, hot night.  We played several hands of Gin by the light of Rick's head lamp and background light from the oil lamps. I stripped down to my underwear (I sparred you from a photo of that!) and we covered ourselves with bug spray to keep the mosquitos away.

I had won several hands by the time the lights came back on and Rick was relieved that he didn't have to play another hand.