Elections-West Coast Style

So last night's election night was our first one spent on the west coast. Throughout the election season we've been able to experience the best that the politically active northwest has to offer so we were looking forward to settling in for a long night of watching all the election coverage. Last night we got Olivia into bed around 7:30 and ordered pizza so we could veg out in front of the tv, watching the coverage. We had just settled in with our pizza and drinks (virgin mojito for me), we were happily channel surfing between the major networks, starting to get excited about the hours of fun ahead only to discover that right around 8pm our time, it was over. That's it, no more fun, no more diagrams of red and blue states or television anchors excitedly debating split states. The polls had barely closed here and a winner was announced. It's not that we're not excited about having a new president but seriously, it was over already! We miss the east coast, the election parties, the sitting glued to the tv for hours watching television anchors with their fancy diagrams. It must be very disappointing to live in Hawaii, you're half way through the work day and the whole thing is over.....