power outage

The local power company sent a notice to the school and all the households in this neighborhood at the beginning of the week informing us of a planned power outage today starting at 1:00. The school decided to make it a common day (that means all students come at 8:00 instead of spliting the school population like we do usually). The concern is for the bell system, the fire alarms, the lack of lighting in the bathrooms, etc. However, we will still be in session for 1 1/2 hours without power. The kids think this is a great adventure and they all squealed and giggled when the power actually did shut off. They thought for sure I would not have them paint, because how can you paint without power? Well, they found out you can paint just fine with the light from the windows. :)