Jackson saw my air mattress that I brought and decided he wanted an air mattress too. Then he decided that he wanted to sleep in the living room. So we had a big slumber party in the living room, with Jackson on the couch and Jenn and I on our respective air mattresses. Thank goodness we all decided to sleep in the same room. It wasn't as bad as the news made it seem, but it was still scary at times. Around 2 am the hurricane force winds and rain started to really kick in. We all kept waking up every hour or two listening to the storm, praying that we would be safe and so would our houses. Around 5:30 am Jackson woke up scared and traded places with Jenn. Then the power went off. We slept on and off again until close to 8am.
We woke to a banging sound on the side of the house, which we quickly discovered was a piece of siding from the front of Jenn's house. It eventually blew off into the back yard. Part of her fence was also damaged. But, since there was no power and the storm was still raging outside, we decided to make the most of it.
So we...
built a fort....
colored pictures....
and played "Dinosaur Train".
The power came back on much earlier than we expected it to and we had a pretty comfortable evening. I knew that the base didn't have power and that some trees were down, but I was a bit nervous to find out what I would go home to Sunday morning. But if a little bit of siding and fence damage was there was at Jenn's, I was pretty confident I wouldn't have too much damage either. I was glad we were prepared for whatever may come our way, and I was even more glad that the supplies were not really needed. And I was glad that I had a six year old to hang out with. They make pretty good hurricane buddies.
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