Rough Day

[KenP]

We had a few things that needed to be done yesterday, but could hold off until today, so we decided to hit Prime Outlets in Williamsburg yesterday.

The driveup was uneventful, the boy was doing great, and there was no traffic at the tunnel. Then the first ominous sign appeared. I'd gotten directions to the wrong outlet mall and the wife and I are pretty much starving.

McDonalds... that works. Then I drive around for awhile and we eventually find the darned place. We'd both been there before, but for some reason I always forget where the hell the place is.

The wife finds some great deals, so she's happy and it's time to head home because my little sis is supposed to eat dinner with us and will be arriving at 5PM.

We head home at 3:30. I know it's a bad time, but we have a 45 minute drive and I need to fire the grill up.

Sure enough we hit traffic on I-64 and it sucks. Speed up, slow down, speed up, STOP.... etc...

I jump off the highway and head down 60 missing all the backups. Atleast we aren't sitting still. Then I decide to jump back on 64, but the route I take doesn't have an on ramp, so down another road until we can get on.

We're haulin' now. Ooppps, stop and go tunnel traffic for several miles...

I call my sis to tell her dinner is off but it turns out she'd left messages at home saying she couldn't come over. Had we known this, we'd have stayed in Williamsburg a couple more hours.

We're finally entering the 'hood and we see fire... on the power lines! WTF?!?! A cross bracket on a pole had broken and caught some trees on fire! It's ok, the road is blocked by police so another detour is in order, plus we live deep enough in the neighborhood we should be ok.

Nope! Power is out and guess what... NO HOUSE KEY!!! I only use the door opener so we can't get in the GD HOUSE!

Alright, we'll just go to BJ's because I need to get some pork butts and steaks for this weekend plus a few odds and ends.

We eat freaking 'dogs at BJ's and get our stuff and head home. Got to love hotdog burps in the car....

Power is still OUT!!!

We head to my other sister's house and put the meat in her fridge and hang out for awhile. We head home around 7PM with the food and guess what... STILL NO POWER!!! WTF?!?! They haven't even started hanging the cable!

We stop by a neighbor's house and the power company told him 8:45 the power would be restored.

Back to my sisters house until about 9:15. We head home again and.... NO POWER!!!

We're tired and just want to get in the house. Now had I called a locksmith hours earlier I know we'd have been in the house and I know I could have broken a window or something, but I didn't want too. They usually get us up and running pretty quickly...

Back to my sister's to drop the meat off. Heck, we'll just drive around around and eventually make our way home.

We get a message around 9:30 the neighbor that power should be up by 11pm. Great...

We drove through Chix Beach, hit the Oceanfront, cruised up the Blvd and eased into the 'hood at 10:45 to beautiful shining lights.

What a day... Now i need to go get those butts!!!