Let There Be Light.....

To celebrate Lisa and Rebecca's birthday and my parent's wedding anniversary, we had dinner at my parent's house. It was a blustery Sunday afternoon. When Julie and I arrived, we were surprised to find that the power had gone out. The dinner was all set up downstairs and we just needed to cook the carrots and make some gravy. We waited for a while to see if the power would come back on.

My dad went to get Laura from the airport and it gave us an excuse to postpone dinner. My dad came home empty-handed. Since the storm was creating so much wind, the plane had been diverted to Boise, ID. Laura finally got home 4 hours after her original arrival time.

In the meantime, my mom went to the neighbor's house across the street to see if we could use their microwave to cook the carrots. For some reason they had electricity and we didn't. We had a candlelight dinner downstairs. The kids thought it was so cool. We decided to eat our salad first. To me, the salad really was a dessert, but Lisa says that if you put a piece of lettuce on the plate first, it turns it into a salad!

After the first course, we went back upstairs and had Lisa and Rebecca open their birthday presents. When we went back downstairs to eat the rest of the meal, the kids could not figure out why we were going to eat AGAIN. The swiss steak was so good and it had a yummy sauce so we didn't even need gravy. The dinner was so good.

By this time, the power being out was really getting annoying. Then, poof, it came back on four hours after it went off. It was a good thing because it was really getting dark outside. We will remember this birthday dinner.