Black Out Pakistani Style....

We were left in the dark yesterday starting at 3:30pm. There was some major power failure that affected alot of the southwest! It was massive chaos around town.  No traffic lights worked, cell phones were not working.(it was weird, we were disconnected from the rest of the world) Anyways, I wanted to take the kids to the beach and went out and came right back. So what to do in a power outage situation when its hot...take the kids to the pool! Burn some energy =)

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The power came back sometime during the night.  Got up in the morning to take Umair to school for half day....did I mention that Fridays are half days here.!?!?! Go figure! Get ready go to school and noone is there....they closed school for POWER OUTAGE!!!! I guess not everyone had their power back.

So I decided to take care of a few things....I went to the library to get a library card. The librarian needed an ID, so I gave him(yes the librarian was a guy) my license.  He asks me what is the abbreviation for Maryland. Are you kidding me? Why don't ppl know the abbreviation for states?

Took the kids to the beach today just to see the ocean...had an interesting experience there...Haseeb fell off the retention wall in to a bush at the beach....only Haseeb! Alhamdulillah he was fine! The wall was like 3 feet off the ground, Alhamdulillah the bush was there to break his fall.  He had sand and branches and feathers in his hair!

I had to be back at 1pm bc they were FINALLY delivering our car. It took the car 14 days to get to California from Indiana! I could have driven it faster here.  So glad to have my car here though. Now I know why cars have sunroofs! Cars with sunroofs are meant to be used in California!

I wonder how many heads I am going to turn with my MD (abbreviation for Maryland) plates driving around in California!!