Shipwrecked!: Paid Vacation

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Paid Vacation

Well, it's the day after the storm, and by some astounding miracle, it sounds like our house made it through nearly if not completely dry even though hurricane Sandy hit Cape May HEAD ON and a lot of the town was flooded. And Atlantic City only an hour away was completely devastated. Somehow, the Coast Guard base and housing stood strong.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that we are going home tomorrow morning. I consider this bad because tomorrow is Halloween and the kids are tired of wondering when and more importantly where their Halloween party and trick or treating is going to be. We had it planned out to have the party in the hotel tomorrow and then trick or treat somewhere around here. Now it's all kind of up in the air.

The plan is to get home early tomorrow, clean up the mess, unpack, and continue on with Halloween that evening. At least the party part. Who knows if trick or treating will happen.

It's also bad because I never got to drink a Hurricane in a hurricane. We tried. The stores were out of Hurricane mix. DAMN them.

So it sounds like for the second year in a row we had a paid vacation to Mt Laurel, including free lodging and food. Can't really beat that can you. Next time they can evacuate us to someplace tropical.

Here's some pics from our stay. We spent most of the time in our hotel room with friends, making Halloween decorations (which we put all over the room), playing pirates and watching LOTS of Weather Channel.

Now all that's left to do is eat an entire unopened box of Oreos double stuffed cakesters that I bought here and don't have room to take back with me.

Darn.