In the Dark

This afternoon my co-workers were generous enough to throw us a baby shower. They reserved a space in an awesome local pizza place. They arranged for a variety of pizza to be served, as well as the yummy bread sticks and spinach-artichoke dip. The shower started at 4:00.

Around 3:50, a HUGE thunderstorm blew in, with insane wind, lots of rain, and dark threatening clouds. Though it only lasted about 10 minutes, that was long enough to knock out power to everything in the area. So...we made our way to the pizza parlor along a busy road where all the traffic lights were out (As an aside, why is it so difficult for people to treat a broken traffic light as a 4-way stop?), and arrived at Everybody's Pizza to discover that their power was out too.

They had a couple pizzas made for us, but no power means no ovens, so they informed us they wouldn't be able to make more. So instead, we ordered some salads (since those didn't need to be cooked), and everyone seemed to have a good time, and enjoyed the food we had!

My co-workers were extremely generous, and the baby tub full of all sorts of baby stuff (rubber ducky with sensor to tell you if bath water is too hot, teethers, onesies, burp clothes, bath toys, washcloths, etc.) was gorgeously packaged and wrapped. And my jaw dropped when I opened the pack-n-play! Though the gift that got the biggest laugh was the Pee Pee Tee Pee. There was a car seat head rest for infants, seat protector for the car, a couple of hand crocheted blankets. We really appreciated everything! Thank you!

After opening the gifts, we enjoyed the cake, and chatting, but by about 5:30, everyone was sweating from the lack of air conditioning from the power outage (this is July in Atlanta after all). As the party broke up, we all walked out to our cars to find the sun shining as bright as ever. While not exactly according to plan, it was a good time, and certainly a memorable baby shower!