Sushi During the Storm

The kids were gone again this weekend which allowed us the opportunity to again venture over to Omaha with Colby's work friends. Here's a look at our day without the kids:

Wake up 8 am.
Eat a BLT for breakfast.
Get to Seven Seas Tattoo at noon to begin work on Colby's new octopus tattoo.
3:30 pm: leave tattoo shop and head home to change and clean up.
Friends arrive at 4:30 pm to drive us to supper.
6 pm: Arrive at Upstream Brewery for drinks
7 pm: Arrive at Baby Blue and drink jasmine tea. I'm not making the same mistake that I made the last time we all went out. Nope. No vodka drinks, wine, and sake for this girl.
7:30 pm: Colby eats his first piece of raw fish sushi and likes it. We all had spectacular food. The storm arrives. We are too busy chowing down and talking to much notice the storm.
Around 9:00 pm we left Baby Blue and saw this:



It wasn't raining anymore, but the lightning was amazing and the clouds were spectacular. Colby and I stopped outside the restaurant for a quick kissy photo:



10:00 pm: Arrive at a friend's house in Lincoln and receive a call from our neighbors: Mo has escaped the yard (probably because of the fierce storm). They would love to put her in the house, but since the power is out in the neighborhood they can't get the garage door open. We decide that they should put her in the kennel, where we found her when we got home.

We arrived home around midnight to no electricity. It came back on shortly after we brought the dog and cat inside, thank goodness. The garden was pretty trashed from the storm, but we are lucky that we were spared a lot of the damage that other neighborhoods suffered. We saw lots of large tree branches and entire chunks of trees down all over town.

1 am: go to bed.

We're pretty boring folks, even when the kids aren't here to keep us in line. Although, I will say that I'm very impressed with Colby for trying sushi. He's even been eating tomatoes. Dare I say my years of making him try new things is finally paying off?