Goodbye, Ike!

We really fared very well during this hurricane. We slept through the worst of it, there was very little rain on us, and there is very little damage to us. A portion of our back fence is down. It was only propped up with a 2x4, so nobody's surprised. There's a lot of tree debris on our street. A few people had trees down on their houses, but we only got some medium limbs and smaller. People are cleaning up by stacking the branches and bags of debris along the sidewalks.

Our power went out before we had any real storm at all - 8:45pm Friday. We had our battery-operated lantern and some flashlights, so I read a book and the kids were already asleep. Saturday, however, we didn't want to sit around in no air conditioning, so we visited family in the area. It was funner to be together and eat junk food in the heat than all alone :)

We stayed the night at my mom's, which is a treat. Our lights were back on a little later Saturday evening, but we were already there so we stayed. That is really fun for me b/c my mom and sister like to play games! After putting the kids down, we spent the evening playing Rummikub and Parcheesi. Then I finished my book - by lamplight instead of lantern, and slept very well.

Our ward held sacrament meeting today, so we went. Andy's at a meeting that convened after to coordinate cleanup work. All our refrigerated stuff is at Uncle Tim's, and Gabe's sleeping, so I'm cracking open the applesauce, dry cereal, and soup for lunch. Our grocery store and several fast food restaurants are open again, and boy are they crowded! We passed a McDonalds with a drive-thru line that circled the building and ran across the parking lot. Man, I wish! I'm a quarter-pounder junky!

Thanks for all the prayers and well-wishes. I'm blessed to say that we were pretty bored!