creativity required (journal)

9 March 2007
The power's out and we've run out of things to do. We've made shadow puppets, read by candlelight, told stories and tried watch a video on the computer, but the battery died. Ugh! It's not even 8pm. Stuart, not too surprisingly, is already tired and could go to sleep, but Audrey is still wired. Double ugh! We've been power-less for about three hours so far. It's one of the odd things about Viet Nam. Power is never guaranteed. We've lost power in every city we have been in. We've lost it everyday we've been in Ha Noi this time. I don't know why. It wasn't so bad elsewhere. It's strange when it's out for so long. And it's out in a huge area, too, almost as far as we can see to the north and west of us. To the east, just a couple of blocks away they have power. Probably our old hotel has power. Bummer.