A Day Without Electricity & Water...

This past week we received a notice informing us that on Wednesday, the city was turning off our electricity and water from 7:30am-5pm... The first thing that went through my mind was "Did we forget to pay the bills???" But Randall assured me he had taken care of that and after talking to our neighbors, we soon found out that they too received the same notice. So what did we do? The only thing we knew to do: PREPARE... well, sort of....

So we took showers the night before, dried our hair, etc, made sure clothes were ironed if needed, etc. I then got up earlier that morning to make chocolate mill/juice cups for the kids and grabbed some eggs and apples for breakfast; gathered our cooler packs and set everything in our cooler. We knew that if we didn't open the fridge or freezer when the electricity is out, the food had a better chance of staying cool longer...

Thankfully, we have gas stoves in this part of the world, so we were still able to enjoy a "hot" breakfast...

But when the kids woke up and could not watch TV... we found substitutes to keep them entertained while we got ready to leave the house for the day... iPod and iPad (we made sure to charge them the night before)...Thank you Apple!

And to help pass the time, I had set an eye Dr. Appt that morning; went to that and then we headed for the Mall... Another genus idea: A Huge Indoor Play Area for Kids!!!

This definitely kept the kids entertained for a while...

So while the kids played... we caught up on emails, FB, books we are currently reading, etc... Can I just say that we only thought we were prepared to spend a day out of the house (really only to find out, we had prepared for the morning time only)... that is until we realized we had not had our daily caffeine for the day, did not pack snacks/drinks for the kids, etc.. Therefore, we ended up buying what we needed and "survived" the time...

Thankfully they turned everything back on by 2pm, just in time for nap time. Yeah!