GO BRONCOS

Thanks to the return of our electricity, we were able to continue with our travel plans...

Our first stop was Denver, where we met Jake's Dad & brother Joel for the Broncos vs. Saints game on Sunday.

In front of Invesco Field at Mile High
The Broncos in action
The view from our nosebleed seats

Three Umbriaco men watching the game

The Broncos won--off to a good and rather lucky start--and the game was an exciting one to watch with many touchdowns scored and we all had a good time. We'll leave it at that and not let Jake post his pessimistic comments about his love-hate relationship with the Broncos.

While in Denver we were also able to have a wonderful dinner prepared by Jake's aunt with his aunt and cousins. And we went to church with our friends from college who now reside in Denver, Chris & Becky Dean.

Ike Photos

Pre-Ike Winds

Hurricane Ike & Our HouseWet floors at as Ike blows water through both of our doors...and us trying desperately to use all of our towels to soak it up and sweep it out into the garage from 1:30-5;30am

Post-Ike in Our House & Neighborhood

Jake & the dogs trying to get a walk in during the post-Ike drizzle

Trying to ring out many sopping towels

Wet carpet ripped up from our closets

There used to be a fence there A neighbor's dinosaur yard art down--looking like Jurassic Park

Hanging Out At Our Lucky Friends' House with Electricity

All in all we have survived our first hurricane and are grateful that the damage was not worse (all of our windows and roof are intact) and that we again have electricity!

Thank you to all of our friends with electricity who opened their homes to us and shared their electricity with us (especially washing load after load of sopping stinky towels!). My grandma doesn't read this blog, but she will be very happy to know that the one frozen thing we managed to save by shuttling it from freezer to freezer with electricity after the storm was the green chili which she imports to me :)

Let there be light!

This blog comes to you from our couch! Our power is finally back on!!!!!!

Ike Update

We're still kicking.... bottom floor is now dry... lots of soggy towels, soggy dogs, and soggy Umbriacos. Our friends have a generator so this is just a quick update to assure you of our continued existence. Radio says power will be out for up to a month... that would suck.

All for now.

hurricane

it's about 5:30 am here and we have power again, at least for a few minutes.
we are currently okay...but the hurricane is currently over us and we have lots of rain coming through both of our doors fast, as the rain and winds are ferocious and ...and now standing water in most rooms downstairs. please pray for us

Ike Fest

It's Thursday afternoon and I'm off of work for the weekend.... something about a hurricane.

Currently the dogs are passed out in their usual outposts (lovesac and couch) and I'm watching The Office. Erin and I were trying to figure out our weekend commitments but Ike has pretty well cleared our schedules. I'm looking forward to some quality reading time afforded by the inevitable power-outage and I'm also looking forward to quanitfying the magnitude of my B.O. from a weekend free of AC as we ride this thing out.

Expect an update when we emerge from the water.

Peace Out.