A Hard Days Night

before you continue reading this post, i feel the need to mention that my dad is out of town, and usually when he is, things like this just seem to happen.....

i have decided to share this event with you in time line style. apoligies about it being long, i hope you like it. also, forgive me for not being so super concentraity, its hard to think on so little sleep

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Dec, 10th - 10:45PM - retire to my room, watch some Netflix Watch it now, relax...
December 11th 2008
1:29AM - phone rings, whenever the phone rings this late at night, something needs attention at the restaurant...
1:30AM - phone call from Sheriffs Office. "there is a water leak at your restaurant, you need to go check it out."
1:32AM - Wake up mom, reassure her that things will be OK, and its not going to be bad.
1:38AM - arrive at Restaurant in our PJ's still half asleep, spot Carl the Sheriff, and look at the leak.
1:39AM - Rush inside the restaurant, relived that there is NO WATER DAMAGE inside!!!
1:40AM - Call Dad, no answer
1:41AM - City water person comes to check the leak[flood!]
1:42AM - Call Dad, no answer
1:43AM - City water person, sheriff, mom and i walk around trying to figure out where the leak is coming from.
2:01AM - rush home to get restaurant blueprints,
2:08AM - arrive back at restaurant with blueprints in hand.
2:15AM - sift through all the blueprints till the right one is found
2:16AM - pretend to know what im looking at on the blueprints.
2:17AM - offer to make some Hot Chocolate
2:18AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:20AM - outside again, with flashlights trying to see where the water lines are...
2:21AM - trying to decide if it is OUR water line, or the Cities...
2:22AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:28AM - make more Hot Chocolate
2:29AM - offer Hot Chocolate to the Sheriff, he declines
2:31AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:32AM - found water valve, turned off water...
2:33AM - realized that when we turned the water off, we also turned off the Hotel and jail on the same water system.
2:34AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:40AM - Call our plumbers, perhaps they will have the answer
2:47AM - plumber wont be able to do anything till 7am, we are just out of luck.
2:48AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:49AM - City water person asks for a Wet/Dry vac and some extension chords.
2:50AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:52AM - untangled the knot someone made in the chords.
2:54AM - Call Dad, no answer
2:58AM - stood outside with City water person, (in my pjs) holding the flashlight, watching the Wet/Dry vac try and get some of the water out of a tiny line.
3:00AM - wasting time (and warmth) by using the Wet/Dry vac.
3:02AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:05AM - City water person wants to turn the water on, so the jail and motel will have water...
3:07AM - Call Plumbers again, let them know its a BIG leak...more of a gush
3:09AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:12AM - enjoy Hot Chocolate inside while waiting for plumber to arrive.
3:16AM - not enjoying small talk with City water person
3:17AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:18AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:19AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:21AM - Plumber arrives!!!!
3:22AM - confirms that it is indeed a big leak...
3:23AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:24AM - peruse the blueprints for clues
3:25AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:26AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:27AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:28AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:29AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:32AM - walk around outside trying to find more information
3:36AM - decided that we would need to tear out whole parking lot, put in new meter, and repair any damages, but not till 7AM
3:38AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:39AM - Call Dad, no answer
3:42AM - plan on meeting back at 8AMish -
3:43AM - decide to close the restaurant for the 11th.
3:56AM - plan to keep the water turned off till 7AM, called the Jail and Motel let them know.
3:59AM - decide there isn't much more to do now till 7AM.... stumble into our cars and drive home
4:08AM - arrive home, stumble up the stairs
4:10AM - try to un-freeze my toes... not working
4:20AM - fade away to my dreams
5:15AM - mom stays awake to call our head cook and morning waitress, to let them know not to come in
7:23AM - wake up from a rather cold sleep, zombie my way downstairs
7:27AM - entertain Heather and Celeste with stories from the Escapades from just hours ago
7:29AM - get ready for the day... ugh
8:00AM - take girls to school
8:10AM - drop prius off to get oil changed
8:14AM - DAD RETURNED CALLS!!!! wahoo!
8:17AM - rush to restaurant to meet with the working guys
8:19AM - find out that we wont have to tear the whole parking lot up, just a bit of the side walk
8:25AM - found the actual leak spot... thankful for the sun for letting us see
8:28AM - took wonderful footage for dad so he could see what we were up against...
9:30AM - dilly dallied till the workers decided the game plan...
9:45AM - workers said we should be ready to open the restaurant at noonish-
10:00AM - Nick(our cook) came in to work on 2 banquets we had scheduled for tonight.
10:08AM - call the 11:00 gals told them to come in altough were closed to do some cleaning and be ready for when the doors open.
10:45AM - leave restaurant
10:52AM - pick up Prius from Big O
11:02AM - run quick errand to Nebonet
11:15AM - mom packs her clothes, and gets ready for the day (she has a plane to catch!)
11:45AM - Start Blogging this wonderful story
12:30AM - rush mom out the door... wish her a safe trip, assure her that everything will be alright

12:55AM - POST BLOG!!!