Rooftop Luau

This past Saturday, Rahul (our classmate), Braxton and Morgan (one of Braxton's roommates) had a rooftop luau at Braxton's apartment. They have been looking forward to this for several weeks, but have also been very nervous. No one is actually allowed on the rooftop and 120+ people RSVP'd. They were afraid that the roof was going to collapse. Patrick, one of Braxton's roommates, was so worried that he decided to not be a part of it and actually left for his gf's place that day. I was pretty worried too. I had a feeling that they were going to get into a lot of trouble.

Well, first thing is that I got the night off from work! When I walked into their apt, they had leis all over the couches. It was cute! I picked up a lei and headed up to the rooftop. I must say, Rahul goes ALL OUT. Any party of his is going to be pure awesomeness. He gets really into it. He put a lot of time, effort and money into this. Not only did Rahul buy the leis, he also bought 4 feet tiki torches and taped them along the rooftop. He then had a ceremonial lighting and lit the torches, which provided very nice mood lighting for the event. The boys borrowed blow-up life rafts from friends to hold the beer and ice. Brilliant idea. I'll have to remember that because it's easy to deflate and store away when you're done with it. I, myself, have been wanting to be more social and found a ledge to sit on and was catching up with people.

The party was going really well...until the cops came. The luau started at 7pm and at 9:30pm on a Saturday night, the cops came because some people complained. I could not believe it. I did expect cops or the super around 11:30ish or midnight, but not at 9:30pm on a saturday night.  On top of that, we actually weren't loud at all. The music was so low that you didn't need to talk over it. No one was screaming or yelling. People were just talking. I was surprised that it was so tame actually. In any case, all ~70 people tried to cram into the guys' apartment, which definitely was too small.  We lost a lot of poeple because of that.  We tried to move the party to another rooftop that was 20 blocks away. I went with Braxton and a few other people to scope it out and it turned out that no one wanted to leave the apt and move to a new place.  So we went back to Braxton's apartment. I enjoyed the luau the most. I wish they didn't shut us down so early. Rahul also planned a hula dance too with his friends. He got to do it, but it was inside a cramped living room rather than on the roof. Oh well, at least the roof didn't collapse, which was everyone's biggest fear.

Here's a picture of Rahul in the life raft next to the beers. Even though it was such a short party, I felt really good afterwards. One of the shortest, but best parties that I've been to.