Project 365: Day 41 and 42

My brain is still half frozen. Here's the rundown in pictures.

We came home from church yesterday to find the power out.



Thinking it wouldn't be down for long, Robert took Holly to riding. Trevor and I played Mancala.



And Scattergories.



I have been glad over and over again that we've hung on to this regular phone. Our others are cordless and require electricity. Whenever the power goes out (here or at the old house), we have to search for this old phone, but it's been a huge relief to have it. I called the power company and was told to expect power by 7:30.



Trevor settled in to play Gameboy.



I reached for my book.



Robert and Holly came home, and we ended up heading into town to eat at --TADA-- McDonald's. It was yukky. In a yummy, greasy and gross sort of way.



When we came home, we lit all the candles and electric lanterns.



Holly wrote; Trevor and I played more games; Robert did...I have absolutely no idea what he did. The power came back on and we were quite excited. And then it went off one minute later. We went to bed expecting it to come on in the middle of the night. It didn't.

Assuming that the power would be on, Robert had promised the kids McDonald's for breakfast if it was still out.

(Note: This is a sure way to guarantee the power won't come back on anytime soon.)



I really didn't care about the food. I just needed caffeine. Badly and lots of it.



Feeling human again, we toured the town. This means we checked out the wind damage that tore the roof off this store last night.



At Holly's suggestion, we stopped at the library. I was just glad for a warm place to hang out. The kids were glad to see computers.



We came home briefly. By this time, the novelty had completely worn off. Worse, the power company continued to tell us that we might not have power until 4 p.m. on Wednesday. It was difficult pretending that this was FUN, and we found another excuse to head back to town. Honestly, we just wanted to sit in a warm car. And shop at Walmart. And Lowe's. Anything to be out!

We finally came back home to the freezing house. Rummaging through science materials, I found a thermometer, but since I don't know how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, I just knew that 10C was too cold.

Robert made us hot chocolate, coffee and tea by heating water on the bbq. He's SO resourceful, he takes SUCH good care of us, and he puts an element of FUN into stuff like this. He put soup on the bbq too, when WOOOOOOOOOOOO, everything came back on!!!!! Just in time, because after 30+ hours of no heat, I was truly miserable and my toes were beginning to freeze.

I found out that 10C roughly equals 51F.



And we were SO happy that Robert even smiled for the camera.



I am SOOOO thankful that:
nothing major spoiled in the freezer;
we didn't have to go to bed in the freezing house;
we didn't have to wake up in the freezing house;
and we can now flush the toilets whenver we want!!!

Everyone will sleep well tonight.