transformer fires and the night they all slept on the mission field.

so last night i flew back to la after a week of vacation, and as we exited the freeway moses commented on how dark it was, really dark. as he was saying this, we realized that it wasnt just dark, the freaking power was out!! our entire grid was down, there was not a light to be found anywhere. apparently the transformer caught on fire, which is a really bad thing. everyone expected the power to be out for days. we rolled up to the base, and immediately turned around and got the h out of there, it was a hundred flipping degrees outside (at least it felt like that, it was REALLY hot and muggy!), and inside the trailers it was even worse. we went and got a drink instead, where there was not only pool tables and tv's with the game on, but really nice ac. afterwards, we decided that there was no way we were going to stick around and try in sleep in such swampy, miserable conditions, so we made a few calls, and the fabulous moses took us to his fabulous ghetto mansion, where we not only enjoyed the amazing air conditioning, we also watched some pretty awesome movies on his pretty awesome tv. we all nodded off for a while, basking in the cool air and low volume noise (trying to sleep on a base with 60 plus people and no sounds to drown it out = not a good time.) around 2 we woke up and headed back, where i proceeded to fall onto my bed, hot and sticky, but relatively miserable-free, considering some of the conditions ive endured elsewhere. around 8.30-ish i rolled over, and was pleasantly awakened by a roll of cool air that swept over my body, the power was back on! i can only imagine the lengths the power guys had to go through, staying up all night in an effort to relieve us of the oppresion as quickly as possible. so we played hooky from church, went to dennys instead, and now are inside of our trailer, where the swamp cooler is on, and all is well. what else are we going to do to stay cool today? well, there is that movie were going to this afternoon, and the pool which is just calling our names. sigh, life really isnt so bad when its a holiday weekend and you can stay up late inside of mansions and go swimming at night and enjoy movies during the day.