Oops, I mean Power Outage Day. Paul and I remember the joy that came with a big snowstorm and the anticipation of whether or not school would either start late or be completely cancelled when we were growing up. As follow-up to the last couple posts about Isaac's starting school, we get to post just one more school story. Thanks to some power worker who made a mistake during a routine power check on Thursday, over one million people experienced a power outage.
He has been in school for less than a week (2 1/2 days to be exact) and has already had school cancelled. Unfortunately, he was not too thrilled to find out that school was cancelled. All he could think about was that it was his share day and that he knew his memory verse. And besides, in his words, "But, Dad, the power is back on!" He ended up getting to go to a pool party at a friend's house so the day was not a total wash for him.
Although the radio was warning people that power might be out for a full day or longer, we ended up being without power at our house for about 11 hours. The funny thing is that a few of us girls were getting together to say goodbye to a friend, and our plans for the evening centered around having dinner at a local restaurant. Needless to say, we had to go to plan B since everything was closed. We spent the evening at one girl's house (whose husband was out delivering generators) and grilled up the random things we thought would spoil during the power outage. Girls' night consisted of sitting in our friend's driveway with flashlights and one headlamp, a grill and a meat-filled dinner: two steaks, five hot dogs, one cheddar wurst link, ramen noodles, sparkling lemonade, pita chips and hummus (about the only thing on the list that might be "normal" fare for a girls' night out). Despite the change in our plans, it really was a great time though we were sad to have to say goodbye to Tami.
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