I survived!

                                So..... It's official I have survived my 1st hurricane! Hurricane Irene came to visit on friday night. I had been awaiting the arrival of "her" for about a week. Watching the news all the time. I became obsessed with checking the news. Always looking to see how fast it was or where its projected path was. I have lived here for the last 4 years and had never been in one before. I was overly strangely excited! Once I knew it was coming to NC I had to go to the madhouse.... WALMART! Maddie and I went on that wednesday before the storm. It seemed like everyone and their cousin was there. Damn... they were almost outta cases of water. They had no raviolis and almost outta bread. I thought OMG! I ended up stocking up. I bought steaks, chicken legs, Italian sausage, cheeseburgers. I figured I would wanna be eating good food on the grill if our power was gonna be out. Screw the raviolis! haha..... So friday daytime finally came. Red was sent home from work because of the storm. All kinds of businesses started preparing for the hurricane. Lots of cars headed outta town. Alot of places were closing early! Everyone trying to get home. Irene came into town early friday afternoon. I was excited to finally see some rain and clouds and WIND! What I realized is that a hurricane is a very long long long storm. Not everything happens all at once. We would get these wind bands....the trees would sway back and forth. It reminded my of pom-poms. I loved the sound. We would get rain on and off. Some hard rain some light rain. It was fun! Madelyn also had her first experience ;)

                                On friday night Red cooked us our steaks on the covered porch we have. We were set up! It felt like camping in the back yard. LOL. We put Mads to bed around 715ish. So for the rest of the evening we pretty much sat outside on the porch and just watched and listened to the storm. I defintly wanted to be outside for as long as I could. The worst part of the storm was gonna be between 2am-4am. Around 5am the power went out. Boooo! I woke up right away. Madelyn woke up right away. We were all up at 5am with candles lite and flash lights. It was kinda hard to play with Mads in the dark. With no cartoons!! We were stuck in the house for the next thousand hrs! We could only go on the porch. I was thankful for that! We even ended up eating steaks and eggs in the am on the grill. It was YUMMY! We played played played in the house all day! Trying to keep a baby entertained during a hurricane can become difficult! especially towards the end! NO TV or music. or even the option to play outside. We made lunch outside on the grill. I would say in the afternoon on Saturday Irene was finally slowing down some outside. People in my neighborhood started to go outside. We wanted to see if anything was broken. Or any trees where cracked in half.

                                       The neighborhood was a MESS! There were tree limbs everywhere! Pine cones
galore!!!! We went out on a bike ride! We wanted outta the house! We had to open the windows. It was starting to get hot in the house. So I know noticed.... All kinds of people have generators! I want a generator! If I'm gonna live in NC for the rest of my life I need a generator! haha. I was and still am jealous of anyone who has one! We had to go to my sister house for about 1 hr that day. So we could get the baby in the ac. She needed to cool off! So did I :)  I needed to charge my cell phone. The battery was dying right before my eyes. So went there! A few of us met up over there. It was nice! Auntie Jaymee never lost power!! LUCKY!!  Anyways it was time to head home. Mads needed dinner. We went back home to still NO POWER! I was very sad! We made dinner on the grill! As soon as we sat down to eat ..... The power came BACK ON!! So glad I can sleep with the ac on! Yay!! I was sooooo HaPpY! 14 hours of no power thats a plenty for me!! The hurricane was actually kinda fun in a way. Nothing was damaged! No one was hurt! We were all safe! Now I can write in Madelyn's baby book..... We went through our 1st hurricane together!!!  xoxo