A Weekend Adventure

I went home this weekend for my friend's engagement party. Home is in Connecticut. Connecticut is where the snow heavily snowed on this weekend.

The engagement party was in New Jersey. My family and I left Jersey after the snow had already begun. Because of the weather and traffic (due to accidents from the snow), it took us three and a half hours to get home - two hours longer than it would normally take us. When we reached our neighborhood, getting to our house was an obstacle course. Where I live is already like a maze; you have to zigzag through roads and go up and down hills. It's definitely not like New York. So, now, with power lines and trees down, finding a way to get to my house was almost impossible. Luckily, we found a way. Thank God for our Ford Explorer that carried us up the one snowy-hill option we had that wasn't blocked off.

When we reached our home, my family and I were in for a rude awakening: the power was out. Because we couldn't open our garage, we walked through the two feet of snow, past the breaking trees, to the front door, I being in a sari and open-toed heels. Using my dying cell phone as a source of light, we searched for candles and matches in the pitch dark. We decided to pack clothes and brave the bad roads again to go to my eldest brother's house ten minutes away (even though we knew it would take much longer to reach there) that was not powerless likes ours. When we finally made it out of our driveway after getting stuck about twenty times, we got stuck on our street, not even a minute from our house. We had no choice but to turn back to our powerless, waterless, heatless home.

It was 10:30 pm, and my parents and brother decided to go to sleep because there was nothing to do. I, on the other hand, had a final paper due the next day for my Sunday class; it was the last class. I had already researched for my paper and written two outlines, but I had not written the paper yet. As you can see, the snow had other plans in mind for me that night. So, while everyone attempted to sleep under multiple comforters in our freezing home, I sat at my dining room table with a scarf and gloves on, wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by literally ten candles, trying to write my Families, Cultures, and Learning paper.

Thank God everything turned out okay. What a night; it was definitely an adventure and a night to remember. And that was just Saturday. Sunday is a whole other story.