LOST: Bringing People Together

Recently our Nashville friend Nate Ragan saw Chris Seay (of Ecclesia Church in Houston) say on Twitter, “Any friends in Hawaii willing to help me with a secret mission related to The Gospel According to LOST?” Since we live in Hawaii, Nate forwarded this message to us. We had no idea what it meant. But Chris is rather famous in the Christian world (we used his Advent Conspiracy study this year at church) so we figured it would at least be fun to contact him and possibly meet him. We ended up driving him and his videographer, Ryan, around the island. We stopped at the Pali Overlook and Kalama Beach where they got some shots. We also ate a delicious lunch at Chao Praya Thai.

The videos were going to promote his book, The Gospel According to LOST, the whole reason they were in town. Why now? The final season of the show LOST was beginning, and the producers aired the world premiere here in Waikiki on January 31. The majority of the movie was filmed here, so it made sense.

We attended the LOST premiere separately, and ended up running into our friend from a board game group that we frequent. He scored a nice spot slightly away from the crowd and allowed us to join him for the viewing! Waikiki was absolutely packed. People were crowded into every little spot of sand or sidewalk. We watched the red carpet for a little while and saw Hurley, Richard, and Frank arrive. It was pretty fun to see it in that setting and get the inside scoop that John Locke…. [censored]…. before the rest of the world knew!

The next night we met up with Chris and Ryan and they treated us to some excellent sushi, which we got at half price for being locals. Definitely not a normal weekend. Just one of the random things that happens to you if you live in Hawaii I guess.

 

February 6th, 2010 | Category: Fun, Hawaii | Subscribe to Comments