It's hard to cook when there's no power!

It's hard to cook when the power is out! We lost power from Friday afternoon until late yesterday night. Terrible rain storm and then ComEd couldn't find the problem.

Luckily our financial advisor and friend, Michael, took us all out to eat at Bob Chinn's Friday night. We didn't know out power was out until we got home after 9pm. Too late to cancel our Peapod order so the groceries were delivered. Our driver, Griffin, has also become a friend and he gave us 5 coolers with dry ice. All of our food sat in our kitchen until we finally heard Saturday that our power wasn't expected to go on until tonight at 11pm.

We drove everything over to my Mom's because her power was still on. We stuffed her fridge and freezer to the hilt! We couldn't fit the hamburger and italian sausage in the freezer so we decided to make spaghetti yesterday. We made some garlic bread out of the french bread that Peapod just brought and we had some fresh broccoli and a garden salad. Yum. Oh, don't forget the wine.

Sleeping without air conditioning on Saturday night didn't go over too well and when I left the house on Sunday - couldn't take it anymore - to get a new hairstyle and pedicure, I came home and Aaron was sweltering. I said, Good God, let's go to my mom's and if you want to stay in a hotel tonight, ok. So we did...

We tried to get a place close to where we work. The Staybridge in Glenview was booked, so we ended up at the Sheraton in Northbrook - right across the street from where we work. It was Fathers Day so maybe that's why we had to spend $244 with tax for a room with 2 double beds, and a toilet that didn't flush. No fridge, no microwave. Hmmm. We ended up in the lounge. It was just us 2 and the bar tender. Aaron ordered a bourbon and I ordered a scotch. As we were sitting there watching golf and chatting with the bar tender, I thought maybe they would have a nice appetizer - seafood related. So we orderd 1 crab cake each. They were very good. When we got the bill it was $52. What? My scotch was aged 21 years so it was $25 a pour. The crabcakes were $13 and Aaron's bourbon took up the rest of the bill. Then I had to leave a tip. I wanted to call my lawyer and sue ComEd for the inconvenience.

Anyway, the good news is, it was all wonderful and we made a new friend, the bar tender - Joe, who had so much fun with us that he asked us to stop by and have a drink with him again soon. The beds, pillows and comforters were fantastic. The only thing was, the power came on at about 9pm (instead of Monday night at 11pm like they had estimated) while we were at the hotel, so we didn't even need to sleep there!

In the morning Aaron was very nauseaus, (probably from the heat and maybe the crab cake that he had wasn't so wonderful after all?) so I ended up driving him all the way back home again and then turned around and in another rain storm, headed back to work!

I had no food and Aaron had no food at home because it was all at mom's house, so he had to call her and then go over and bring the food back home. I had to stop and get breakfast, and then go out for lunch. At least lunch was healthy - a tuna salad sandwich on wheat bread. Breakfast was an Egg McMuffin and a diet coke! Oh well. I guess under extreme circumstances, what can you do?

Tonight we'll have the left over spaghetti, salad and broccoli, so then we'll be back on track.

What a nightmare! We finally get a weekend where we don't need to do something and then all this crap happens.

Baby is so upset that he's attacked Dolly 3 times today. Poor kitties. Must sit with them for a long time tonight.