Saturday – November 3, 2012<\/p>\n
Despite our best efforts, the hotel was fully booked and had no<\/strong> rooms available for tonight. \u00a0Several Google searches also produced nothing. Luckily one of my cousins called me on my cell phone to ask how we were doing. \u00a0As soon as she heard that we were at a hotel and looking for shelter, she invited us to stay at her house. \u00a0The invitation was so generous and much appreciated by us because we dreaded spending another cold night at home. \u00a0After a long hot shower at the hotel, we packed our bags and left Norwalk. \u00a0We drove to our house, hoping that the power was restored. \u00a0But, no such luck. \u00a0Gallivanting Grandma began to have new meaning as we wandered seeking a warm place to spend the night.<\/p>\n Before going to my cousin’s house, we stopped to purchase some wonderful Italian pastries at a nearby bakery which had power. \u00a0Then we drove to my cousin’s lovely house. \u00a0We had good conversation and lots of \u00a0laughs. \u00a0We looked at old family photos and ate a delicious home-cooked dinner. \u00a0It was a long-overdue visit. \u00a0As we finished dinner, Jeff checked his mobile phone to see if we had power at home. \u00a0Our home phone rang and the recording machine answered. \u00a0We had electricity!! \u00a0Unbelievable!! \u00a0After a while, we said our fond goodbyes and drove home with great expectations. \u00a0Yes, we had power. \u00a0Our wanderings were over. \u00a0Heat and light at last……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday – November 3, 2012 Despite our best efforts, the hotel was fully booked and had no rooms available for tonight. \u00a0Several Google searches also produced nothing. Luckily one of my cousins called me on my cell phone to ask how we were doing. \u00a0As soon as she heard that we were at a hotel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-local-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}