today the inevitable happened

We're no stranger to powers outages in this country. They happen frequently in the winter when it doesn't rain so much. Our city runs on hydroelectric power, so we rely on good rains to keep the power going. Winter power outages are annoying but something we can deal with. But summers? Oh, quite another story. We like our air conditioning thank you very much. These little concrete building can become ovens in the summer and refrigerators in the winter. Kevin and I had personally never experienced a bad power outage in the summer...until today. This morning our neighbor called and asked if we had the same sign on our building that they did...no power today from 9:30am-6:30 pm. Much to our chagrin, there was a sign. Now, we have many friends who do not use air conditioning here, and many Asians do not even own one. So, theoretically it can be done. No a/c is one thing, but no air at all is another. It's difficult for us to get a good cross-breeze in our house. Today the forecasted high was in the upper 90's. So, I hurredly filled up some buckets of water since, in our building, no power also usually means no water. We had planned a dinner meeting at our home, but it was moved to a restaurant. Most importantly, we packed up and went to Kevin's cousin's home!! Jeff and Amy graciously let us stay at their house. It was great to have a place for Grace to nap. Grace had her first incident with stairs while there. I guess it's also inevitable for every toddler, but oh did it hurt my heart. As I was in the bathroom (and failed to ask the others in the room to watch Grace), I heard a loud splat. Face first on the hard marble floor. She'll have quite the bruise...