In The Dark

What a wild and crazy weekend. First, the weather was unbelievable. I think we had a hurricane come through Friday night and Saturday. Trees down everywhere, no power (more on that later), flooding. Wild. Of course a little bad weather wasn't going to keep us from having some fun. Friday night, we drove to Manayunk during rush hour in the driving rain with Melissa and Mark to pick out flowers for the wedding. After dinner at Bella Trattoria, we drove into the City to celebrate Ashley's birthday. That is Ashley in the red.

We met a big group of people at Jolly's the piano bar on Chestnut. We had a great time although the piano players weren't the best and it was so loud we could barely hear each other.

They did sing to Ashley though.

Saturday morning, I had to go back to music class to pick up Aden's diaper bag, which we left Thursday night. Since we were there already, we stayed for the class.

It was Aden's nap time so he was a bit mellow, but he had fun.

That night, Jaime and Abby came with the kids and about 10 minutes after they arrived, the power went out! They decided to stay for dinner anyway. After a quick flurry of activity looking for candles and flashlights, we settled in to eat. The kids had fun running around in the dark. All the following pictures were taken in the dark with the help of the flash. Aden kept busy watching Elmo videos on my iPod.

It was quite a scene with the kids running around and us trying to serve, eat and cleanup dinner. We forgot the garbage disposal was electric so the sink got blocked up pretty quickly. The gas fireplace kept us warm.

Kids will have fun no matter what the circumstances.

We went to bed in the dark with PECO's latest prediction of service at 4:30 a.m.