Hurricane Ike- Day 10 & 11 - Friday 9-19-08 & Saturday 9-20-08

We woke up this morning and our neighbors had brought home a generator and they said they wanted to share it with us. We were pretty excited because we thought we could at least hook up the internet or possibly the TV. Well, once we plugged into it, we discovered that the cable and internet was not working. What a big let down! Oh well, I had a book to enjoy reading.

In the afternoon, we talked to Brad and Linda and they invited us over to do laundry. Nick ended up helping Brad around the house to cut down some branches and clean up. Linda and I did laundry and entertained the kids by walking to the park. They invited us to stay for dinner and we had a wonderful warm meal. We also enjoyed the air conditioning since it warmed up today.

We came home around 9 that night and we noticed that there were lights in the front half of our apartment complex. It turned out that the front half had power, but the back half (where we live of course) did not have power! It was difficult to take that in because it felt like it was so close, yet so far away. The apartment was pretty stuffy as today got a little warmer, but we were still able to get some sleep.

Saturday
Today was even hotter! We felt so incredibly anxious all day to get power so we could cool off. We ended up going to the POD to get some ice and they gave us some MRE’s also. We decided to go somewhere cool for lunch and we were tired of feeling so gross that we went to Olive Garden. We had a very nice time there and it was so cold inside I got the goose bumps!

We went to Wal-Mart and bought brats and chicken breasts to eat at home as well. We kept them in our cooler filled with ice. We then went over to Matt and Amanda’s apartment because they were celebrating Matt’s birthday a week early. We had cake and ice cream and visited with some friends.

We came home to a hot and humid apartment. We did not get much sleep tonight at all!