So I had an interesting Saturday... In the morning we went to Honolulu to go to the swap meet where you can buy really cool expensive stuff for dirt cheep. After that, we went to the Live in HD broadcast of Verdi's opera "Otello" based on Shakespeare's play. After it was over, we went shopping for some lights that we are going to install sometime this week. Maybe tomorrow or the next day, I'm not sure. Then, we went to the new movie called Hotel Transylvania and about 1/2 way through, one of the guys that worked there, came into the room and he said, "there is a tsunami warning that is going to hit in about two hours. if you come out into the lobby, we can get you another ticket to come see the movie again..." The only times i've ever heard about tsunamis were a year and a half ago when one hit Japan, and the other time was when I saw the movie The Other Side Of Heaven.
The guy told us to find higher ground in case the water came further inland. We stayed in our van listening to the radio, and finally slept there for a few hours. Don't worry, it didn't even come anywhere close to where we were. It was interesting though because while I was really scared, everyone else was all calm saying stuff like "when this happens...." one of my friends even told me that it's an annual thing that they do every year just in case something happens... which it did.
There are still people watching it to make sure that it is still safe. The Big Island was the one that got hit the most. They had all these different shelter places for people in the different cities to go and the place that the senior missionaries were told to go was the Temple or the Temple Visitor Center.
I think we were inspired to stay in Kaneohe and not go home after we went to the swap meet in Honolulu. Our condo sits right on the ocean, and those coastal towns were all evacuated to higher ground.
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