Unplugged

A fast and furious thunderstorm and its subsequent 24 hour power outage was not what I would have chosen for Sunday and Monday. But "camping" when we weren't planning to was kind of fun...for a night.

With no:

Air conditioning

Computer/Internet/TV/DVD
Microwave, Stove, or Oven

Phone or Cell Phone (both of our batteries were dead)

Lights or even flashlights

Appliances of any kind

We:

had a picnic dinner at the park and stayed outside until dark,

found a deck of cards and played War by candlelight,

camped out on couches downstairs and in the basement where it was MUCH cooler than the upstairs,

finally all fell asleep around 11:30pm,
and spent the next day at museums where there was air conditioning and outlets for charging a cell phone.

We hit up the Building Museum again

and checked-out the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum (which are housed together).

(can anyone name this President?  hint: my boys keep calling him Michael Jackson)

We got lucky...when we returned home in the afternoon, our power was restored, unlike the many people who are still without power and a/c!