Heated Power Outage

The night before Hubby's birthday

a huge Thunderstorm came through and knocked 

out all the power all along the East Coast. 

We had prepared for what we could but 

we NEVER dreamed of the HEAT wave!!

So we thought if we headed out of the area we 

would be able to find somewhere that had power 

but most importantly AIR CONDITIONING!!!

We headed over to Maryland to the White Flint Mall. 

(The one they are tearing down)

Only part of the mall had power from 

generators and the A/C wasn't able to keep up with keeping the

whole mall cool so we were only there for a little while.

We rode the choo choo

(That is the lost but now replaced panda bear)

We got a yummy 

Mrs. Field's Cookie Cake 

and headed back to the apartment complex. 

There was power back on 

but only in HALF the community 

and as for our luck our apt. was NOT 

a part of the lucky half!!

We still didn't have power 

and we didn't know what to do. 

We weren't allowed to swim in the pool 

even though the leasing office had power 

because the phone lines were still down.

(They might need that for an emergency or something...)

(Who doesn't have a cell phone these days.....?)

So we called around because we found out that

some of the other apartment communities/houses in the 

area NEVER LOST POWER!!

(Uh huh... who needs luck!?!?)

Anyways, we found some friends from the ward who 

were less than a 5 min drive away who never lost power 

and asked if we could crash their pool!

(IT WAS SOOO STINKING HOT!!!)

We swam in their pool and cooled down our body temperatures

then headed back to hang out in the leasing office

until we went to get something to eat

and then back to the apartment for the night.

We charged our electronics at the leasing office

so we went back and put a movie on the laptop 

for the boys and hunkered down for the long HOT night!

We got up several times through out the night 

and took cold showers to try and cool ourselves 

off enough to be able to relax and sleep!

(We even dunked the dogs a few time to try and keep them cool as well.)

The next day was Sunday 

so we headed off to church to enjoy the air conditioning

and the spirit there. But we didn't sleep much the night before 

so we headed back to try and get some sleep.

It was STILL SO hot and we normally don't go swimming 

on Sundays but this was an exception!

Everything was up and running so we could finally

use our own pool!!

It was SOOO nice to get in and cool off!! 

Our power came on later that day 

and we have never been so grateful for air conditioning! 

It truly was MISERABLE but 

we are grateful we had shelter and each other. 

The boys did great but every time 

there is a storm now they both get worried 

that we are going to lose power again.