Wild Weekend

Almost locked in a city park, no electricity at the apartment for over 2 hours, and no phone for the entire weekend. That's how my weekend was. I started my walk home a bit later than usual on Friday, and as I was walking through the park I heard a whistle. I just thought that someone was playing soccer so I just ignored it. Until I got closer to the gate and realized that it was closed and locked. Then I saw a guard walking towards me, asking me "Didn't you hear me? The gates are closed now." He was nice about it and unlocked the gate...and the 2 other gates that I had to pass through. It was kind of funny in the end, especially when he tried to practice his English with me and I was struggling with my French. I giggled the rest of the way home, imagining myself spending the weekend in a city park, having been locked inside.

But it didn't end there...Saturday, as I was innocently doing a load of laundry, pow! No electricity. Nowhere in the apartment. So I waited for a 1/2 hour or so, hoping it would come back on. Then I went across the hall to my neighbours, but they weren't home. So I started to freak out a bit. I tried looking at the fuse box but nothing seemed wrong. It was getting dark and I knew I needed to do something or I'd be spending the rest of the weekend without power. So I went downstairs to the another neighbour but they weren't home. Then I realized it was a long weekend and likely half the building was away, including my friends down the street that I was thinking of walking over to. At this point I was nearing panic, then I remembered meeting another lady upstairs so I rang her doorbell and thankfully she was home. She was very kind and even came down to my place to look at the fuse box which was what caused the problem. She showed me how to reset it and everything worked fine from there. We had a short chat and things (or so I thought) went back to normal.

Until Sunday morning, when I go to phone my friends to ask what time they were picking me up for church. Except there's no dial tone, no nothing...on both phones. I unplug, replug, put in new batteries, etc etc. Still nothing. By now it's late and I still haven't been able to talk to my friends about the ride I need so I turn my laptop on and try calling them through Skype, which works. They've been trying to call me all weekend so apparently my phone hasn't been working for a while. I did eventually get it back on line and am trying to figure out the cause so it doesn't happen again. So there you go...almost trapped in a city park, almost spent the weekend without electricity and phone. Maybe this is normal? How was your weekend?