Hurricane Ike Weekend

This weekend was upside down in many ways.

We were expecting the arrival of at least the outer bands of Hurricane Ike to give us some rain and wind. We were also expecting my little brother, Colin, and his fiancee Chelsea to come so they would avoid the storm in Houston.

Neither arrived.

Colin and Chelsea decided to ride it out at my parents house and were fine. They still have no electricity and last I heard no water, but they have "lots of smoked sausage", and are doing fine.

Here in Austin we didn't even get a single drop of rain. A little bit of wind and lots of clouds, but no rain!

To prepare ourselves for a weekend of being trapped in the house we went to the store and stocked up on food and videos. Ryan and I are working our way through Mad Men Season 1 and the kids are obsessed with Pokemon.

So instead of being trapped in the house, we ended up spending the weekend outside... running errands, went to the pool one last time before it closed, went through the boys clothes to take out all the too-small-for-P and pass down the J clothes.

Sunday morning the boys woke up extra early (as they always do on the weekend, but not the weekday!) and I dragged into the living room to fire up Pokemon. They were watching some terrible episode about a bike (bicycle) gang on a 10 mile bridge which was terrorizing Ash and the gang while they were trying to get medicine to the Pokemon Center in Sunnyville, etc. I decided this was a great time to get some shut eye.

The next thing I knew I heard tears, real tears. Not the fake "I didn't get what I wanted tears" but truly upset tears. I looked over at J and they were streaming down his face and he was sniffling like he was watching "The English Patient".

What was causing all this boo-hooing?

Apparently Ash and the Gang had found a group of Picachu in the forest and Ash's Picachu decided to leave his human buddy to stay with his Pokemon bretheren. There was this big emotional scene where Ash and Pica say goodbye and J is bawling. Of course, Pica decides to stay with Ash (else you wouldn't be able to watch Pokemon in whatever order it's on. Kind of like mixing and matching the Darren's on Bewitched.) and everyone is soooo happy. Especially J.

Hope you had a safe Hurricane Ike weekend too.