Being me the one hosting the party, the odds were very high, haha.
I got up kind of early on Saturday cause I had to prepare the house for the party. We did some last minutes shopping with Hans and while he went to pick up his co-worker to driving her to the Airport I stayed behind cleaning and organizing everything.

I cleaned the house and finished with the decoration and left few things for the very last minute:

-       Baking

-       Vacuuming

-       Shower

-       wrapping the gift

After Hans came back from the Airport he went out again to get some fruit I needed for the Sangria and some other things. At that point the weather wasn’t that bad. There was no snow going on but I had the feeling that it was going to start any time soon.

I contacted few of the girls to confirm if there was snow which will be plan b but everything seemed that there was no need for one.

Around 4:30 when Hans was in the middle of vacuuming the power went off, which lasted that way for 5 minutes. Hans called BC Hydro to check what was going on cause is being like that for the past couple of days (going off and on in the late afternoon and sometimes off and on till 7:00pm) they said that they were going to check the problem.


<-------- Table set (checked)

        Knitting closer to the   tree (checked)--------------->

wise men on their way to the nativity scene (checked)




Syl ready for a Knit Nite (Checked)

Half an hour later off again and never came back till 11:30pm. We had some candles but it wasn’t enough so once again Hans left the house and when getting to Millstream Mall the power went off there too, and as he didn’t have cash on him (and probably debit/credit card machine weren’t working either) he decided to drive to wall mart/superstore and try to get them there. That’s when the snow started, slowly.

Meanwhile I had a quick shower (who knew for how long the hot water was going to last), so in 10 minutes I showered and even washed my hair, got myself ready in case there were going to be somebody brave enough to showed. Hans spent like an hour out, he said that the line-ups at this 2 stores were insane.

As it was getting late he offered to bring some food (the power was still out so I couldn’t cook anything. He decided for the fast an easy option McDonalds. So we took some pictures and had bigmacs for supper. At that point when we putting the chairs away we heard a hello downstairs (which made me jump I left a note in one of the doors for the knitters to use that door but I wasn’t expecting anybody to show).

As we were still without power we decided to plug the old phone in case somebody tried to call. I received few cancellations (by cell phone and mail) so I really wasn’t expecting anybody, but Carolyn showed all cheerful as usual, and in spite of not having much food to share just some snacks and tea (that took forever to get ready, we ended using one of those camping stoves to heat the water). We had some knitting done and we even exchanged gift, seemed that whe actually picked the gift for each other.
 

I got 2 skeins of a nice purple yarn (at that momento it was difficlt to see the color and lot of chocolates (mint chocolate is my favorite). Se got an almost felted item a skein of colorful sock yarn and a little device that looks like a bee which  is for making i-cords (according to the label it is for French knitting)

We had a good time I hope she had a safe drivehome. Thank you Carolyn for beaing brave. By the time she left it was still snowing and the wind started to get worse.

By9:00pm Hans and I were in bed. Hans fell asleep right away but I had a goal for that knight (work as much as possible on my MIL’s sweater) so with lot of candles around I kept working. The power came back for few seconds so I turned off all the lights and got rid of the sing in the door and locked it .By the time I finished the power was out again. 15 minutes later the power came back and after realizing that the problem was solved I moved everything to the living room. I didn’t want to wake Hans up. And with a cup of tea, some chocolates (from my gift exchange) and some movie on the TV I kept knitting and enjoying the Christmas lights and the view of the mountains.

All in all, despite the weather and the black out,  I had a great Saturday.