So, we woke up to another hot morning. But, early that morning, we were offered a generator by our next door neighbor's parents who had power. It was so awesome. We were able to plug in the fridge, freezer, and a fan. It was great. Thank you Kelly's parents!!!
After that, Jason went over to our partner's house to work on setting up the computers. Amazingly, after being rained on, they were all working. We still plan on writing them off with the insurance company because we don't know when they will stop working, but in the meantime, people can get their info off the computers.
Back at home, the kids asked me to teach them how to play Monopoly. I said, "Sure. Today is a great day to learn Monopoly!!" Really, what else would you do when the power is out?!
As we were playing the power came back on!!! It was so cool... literally... the air conditioner worked and everything! Woo Hoo!! The only things I threw away were a half gallon of milk, some fish I had in the inside freezer that I had not realized was there, and all but 1 bottle of insulin (insulin stays good for 28 days not refrigerated).
That afternoon, we had several people come over to do laundry. One of the people that came over was Penny's family. Penny used to live 2 doors down from us, but now lives across the neighborhood. Her sister, Amanda came over and chilled out (again, literally... AC is so cool!!). I made her a mocha, gave her some wine, and she settled down to watch TV (awesome experience), read a book, etc. While she was here, I ended up bringing her 3 kids & 2 of Penny's kids over to play. While they were all having a blast, I went to work.
While I was running around, I decided not to stop for gas... here's a picture of the line at WalMart (and this was typical for any gas station that had gas):
Instead, I went to Home Depot to buy tables for John's house for the people to work on. In order to get in to the store, I had to stand in line. They were letting about 10 people at a time get in the store. I think this was because they were on a skeleton crew and that's all the people they could handle at a time.
When I brought the tables to our partner's house, I was laughing and told them that they had obviously never been on a scrapbooking retreat because at a retreat, each person would have their own 6 foot table with room for a computer, workspace, and with snacks in the middle. They agreed that they had never been on a scrapbook retreat and were trying to squeeze a lot of people into a small space. I laughed and left because I could tell they didn't want it set up like a scrapbookers paradise. Hah!
By that evening, we had made it through to getting power, so in case you are wondering...here's the verdict... a few M&M's to spare...
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M&Ms makes it all better, huh? Whatever works! I think I might need to get some for emergencies. :)
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