candlelight dinner at eatnpark <3

wow. what a weekend. i'll just start at the beginning...
saturday. had plans to meet with my friend sara for pictures. cancelled them when i found out dan had gotten free kennywood tickets (that we had to use this weekend) and saturday was going to be our best option.

saturday came and it was rainy with thunderstorms. hung out and played games inside instead and went to church later that evening.


sunday came. beautiful, hot day. went to church & sunday school. figured for *free* k'wood tickets, it was worth the money in gas to just make the drive.
had a FABULOUS time at kennywood - our first time together (yay! have a permenant kennywood ride partner! woo!) only downside was it was pretty hot, and we both had to get up early for work today... oh, and on our way there, we're crossing the bridge to get into the homestead area and there's an accident right next to us on the bridge! we both heard it, but didn't realize what we were hearing at first. 3 cars somehow got squished. on another note, however, i ran into a number of people i knew and (believe it or not) dan didn't see anyone he knew! how odd, huh? it was crazy!

we left k'wood around 8pm. we'd ridden all the rides we really wanted to, and were hungry... and the WIND started. we decided to stop in wexford at the eatnpark on the way home. trees were bending bc of the wind. we (barely) make it inside without getting blown away and get a table. not many people there bc of the steeler game. no sooner do we get our waters that the power goes out! so, we sat and waited some. they offered us soup. that was about all they could offer, it was getting thrown out anyway. (sounds real yummy, huh? haha)

they lit a little votive candle for us and we ate our soup by the candle light. at this point we were the only customers left in the building. we waited some, to see if the wind would die down some, but decided to just head home. there was so much debris, and power-outages everywhere (mom and dad didn't get power back til this morning). it is always so weird when the wind is so strong, but there is no rain... wind is often under-estimated, in my opinion.

we get close to dan's house (my car was there) and there's a big pine tree ripped from the ground - landed on a phone line! thankfully we didn't have to take a detour (there was a parking lot to get around the mess right there) but... wow! dan, his parents and i (and my parents, tho they were sleeping at the time) agreed it was safer for me to just sleep in their guest bedroom than try and drive home. that wind was just crazy strong!

i heard on the radio on my way home this morning (to get ready for work) that between 4 electric companies there were 200,000 people without power bc of the wind! jimmy roach and wendy green on froggy were saying how a lot of people (them included) had to get ready for work in the dark and jimmy said, "i just have to thank God for creating sunlight"... :o) i do, too! not to mention the amazing sunrises (which i see now, when i have to work at 630am) and sunsets...

okay, so super-long blog, lots of stuff to say... brings us to today. work was pretty good. been having an issue with one of the kids who tends to bite other kids, though... i was tired (my legs are still pretty tired) and, i'm off to bed now!

take care of you for me.