Dave's Birthday!

Well, I am about a week behind on blogging, but I will try to keep up from here on out. When Claire and I got home from the Newcomers Meeting, Dave was already home and sorting through boxes! Yes, the shipment did end up coming at the end of the second week. What a great relief!

We started right away with getting all of Claire's toys and clothes out. She was so excited to see all of her things again and so were we! After two weeks of Mr. Potato Head, tea party, and Legos, we couldn't be happier to see all of her toys!

We started unpacking some boxes and got through pretty much all of Claire's stuff and the kitchen boxes. Then we decided to get ready to go out for Dave's birthday! We were going to go get Mr. Sushi and some desserts from El Globo, a bakery nearby that sells a lot of different delicious pastries and breads. We got dressed (I actually put on some makeup) and then the lights went out.

In true, Friday night fashion! I couldn't believe that for two Friday nights in a row, we had no electricity. We thought, oh well, we are leaving anyways, but when we got out to the car, we realized that we couldn't go anywhere because the car was inside the gate that is powered by electricity! Now, I thought, "There has to be a way to get out of the gate, even if there is no electricity", but Dave couldn't figure it out. Now, in his defense, it was raining and it was getting dark and the flashlight just wasn't helping enough. (Yes, we bought a rechargeable flashlight after last Friday's outage and an extra candle!)

So back inside we went. Claire had already eaten so I used the charged computer to let her watch part of Shrek. She was already exhausted from the long day and her short 30 minute nap so she was ready for bed early anyways. She went to bed and Dave ordered Mr. Sushi over the phone.

So Dave and I had a romantic candlelight dinner eating California rolls, Mango rolls, Miso soup, and Tuna (for Dave). Afterwards, we pulled a couple of our Costco chocolate chip cookies out of the freezer and had dessert. Then we headed upstairs to watch Arrested Development on our portable DVD player. Not exactly the way we had planned the evening, butWell, I am about a week behind on blogging, but I will try to keep up from here on out. When Claire and I got home from the Newcomers Meeting, Dave was already home and sorting through boxes! Yes, the shipment did end up coming at the end of the second week. What a great relief!

We started right away with getting all of Claire's toys and clothes out. She was so excited to see all of her things again and so were we! After two weeks of Mr. Potato Head, tea party, and Legos, we couldn't be happier to see all of her toys!

We started unpacking some boxes and got through pretty much all of Claire's stuff and the kitchen boxes. Then we decided to get ready to go out for Dave's birthday! We were going to go get Mr. Sushi and some desserts from El Globo, a bakery nearby that sells a lot of different delicious pastries and breads. We got dressed (I actually put on some makeup) and then the lights went out.

In true, Friday night fashion! I couldn't believe that for two Friday nights in a row, we had no electricity. We thought, oh well, we are leaving anyways, but when we got out to the car, we realized that we couldn't go anywhere because the car was inside the gate that is powered by electricity! Now, I thought, "There has to be a way to get out of the gate, even if there is no electricity", but Dave couldn't figure it out. Now, in his defense, it was raining and it was getting dark and the flashlight just wasn't helping enough. (Yes, we bought a rechargeable flashlight after last Friday's outage and an extra candle!)

So back inside we went. Claire had already eaten so I used the charged computer to let her watch part of Shrek. She was already exhausted from the long day and her short 30 minute nap so she was ready for bed early anyways. She went to bed and Dave ordered Mr. Sushi over the phone.

So Dave and I had a romantic candlelight dinner eating California rolls, Mango rolls, Miso soup, and Tuna (for Dave). Afterwards, we pulled a couple of our Costco chocolate chip cookies out of the freezer and had dessert. Then we headed upstairs to watch Arrested Development on our portable DVD player. Not exactly the way we had planned the evening, but we had the rest of the weekend.