Snow Day!

Today ended up being an unexpected day off. Since there was fighting in the capitol yesterday the government imposed a curfew and then extended it and then extended it again. It's still not lifted for the entire city but it finished in the area of town where I live. It was sort of like a snow day only more like a war day.

Thanks for everyone's concern and thoughts. We are all fine. I had to spend the night at my boss's house and we ended up spending today too, just napping and playing guitar hero. Nothing fancy.

Here we are last night when the bombing started. We pulled some lawn chairs up to the roof to get a better view and found that we were not alone, pretty much everyone was out on their balconies and roofs and everyone was on their cell phones which totally overloaded the network and made communication a little difficult. Even though we were up on the roof all the real action was hidden behind a tall building so we could really just see the smoke blowing and the military helicopters flying overhead but we could definitely hear plenty of explosions.

It was a little difficult to capture the blowing smoke in pictures so here is my best attempt. This is the neighbor out on his roof watching the smoke.

The curfew is still in place in parts of town and there are still reports of gunfire but my neighborhood is quiet and it seems like life will go on like normal tomorrow unless something changes. Please keep us in your thoughts and especiallly all our local friends who are on the other side of town and are still feeling unsafe.