The Night the World Went Black

So, yesterday I was all set to break our blogging dry spell, but fate had something else in mind for me. The schedule for last night went something like this: Get off work...check, Meet husband at home....check, Go inside turn on lights...click...click...what!!!!!

Actually, we knew before we went inside that the power was out, what we didn't know was that it had already been out for 3 hours. Unfortunately, this was the second time in the last month that the workers across the street had accidentally cut the power line. This was starting to get a little old. With the prospect of many hours in the dark, and no food in the fridge, we decided a trip to the grocery store was in order.

After doing a bit of grocery shopping and spending some valuable time in the toy aisle, we were ready to check out. As it turned out the person ahead of us in line was one of our neighbors. He told us the power was back on temporarily, but would be turned off later that night, as they were digging up the street to fix the problem. I guess when you live by the police station, that's one of the perks. We grabbed dinner, and made it home in time to catch a couple of shows while anxiously awaiting the darkness.

Finally, about 9:30 the power went off again. So the rest of the night was spent sitting by candlelight, gazing into each others eyes, and holding hands. Just kidding. We actually sat by candlelight, watched some podcasts on our iPod and held hands. All in all, not such a bad night. In fact, I might even ask them to cut the power again sometime.