a not-so-sparkly and fun 4th of July

As we had decided not to stay another night at the hotel, this day was designated to pack up and deliver all the rest of our food to a freezer/refrigerator in hopes that we could keep it and not throw it away.  Unfortunately, there was a LOT of driving and a lot of sweating with all of the maneuvering.

We decided to stay with Joe and Missy who had been offering but due to the distance from Michael's office, we hadn't taken them up on it.  By the time we got to their house after delivering food to Corey's freezer and had fed the boys, we had already had enough for the day.

The boys played with Phoebe and we settled in for what was going to be our last night of camping.

It was an incredibly frustrating day as there were 1,950 houses without power in our area and as of mid-day on the 4th, all but 140 of the houses, had been restored.  We just happened to buy our house on the wrong side of the street, I guess. Needless to see, it was my least favorite day of camping and I was just so ready to go home.

We planned to go to the pool with Michael and Sophia the next day and were looking for the happy signs of a ringing phone to signal that our power was back and little did we know that BG&E was on board to finally deliver and restore our power.