Too exhausted for words

I'm afraid this post will be short as I'm too tired to come up with anything clever tonight.  We have had a very busy day but the result of it is we have hot water!  They started replacing the hot water tanks at around 10:45am this morning which meant draining the old one so that they could put in the new one.  Of course this put more water in the basement so Samantha and I went in the basement (she in her rain boots) and swept water into the sump pump.  I truly believe this was wasted effort but it made me feel better and Samantha got to splash around in the water.  Once we made a path to the water heater and it finally drained, it was replaced.  By 2:30 I had hot water.  I'm so very thankful that we have hot water again. 

After nap time we went to play with Erin and Elliot and the kids were happy to be outside but not necessarily happy to play with each other.  It seemed that everyone had something that someone else wanted so there were moments of crying and screaming but for the most part the kids had fun.  We also took a walk to the seawall to see what the storm sent on to the beach.  Basically there is a lot of seaweed and a very bad 'fishy' smell.  I'm glad we don't live by the seawall and am sorry for our friends that have to smell it!

Although this is a beautiful picture of the beach, usually it has white sand on it and not so much seaweed.  The storm washed away all the good sand and made really neat prints in the sand from erosion and receding tide.

We ended the evening having dinner at a friend's house which was wonderful.  We have had such a busy day of cleaning and playing that I was too tired to even think about dinner.  So, I make this a quick post so that I can go and take a hot shower!