Will wonders never cease?!

The wonders of the past 24 hours:

• 10:35 pm last night saw us all jumping around and doing a little dance of joy in our verandah. I had been, um, er, well, using the bathroom by the light of my headlamp at about 10:32pm, as we had just been plunged into darkness about 30 seconds before, as is normal for evenings here. But before I could even finish in the bathroom, voila, all was lit up again! Which could only mean one thing - city electricity is back! Amazing. After over a month of being a slave to the generator schedule, we are now free to live in an electrified world, pretty much 24 hours a day! It's strange to have the fans going, lights on, computers charging... all without the constant drone of the generator. And it's weird to be able to do what we want at any time of the day or night, without looking at my watch constantly to think about when we need to turn the generator on or off. Just now, we were thinking about watching a movie this evening... and the thought crossed my mind that we gotta get started with the movie or we won't be able to finish it before the generator turns off. But wait, we can watch movies all night now, if we want to!
• ICE is forming in our freezer. Yes, folks, we have ice. With 24 hour electricity, our refrigerator and freezer are finally getting a chance to get cold enough to do what they were created to do. We had icey cold drinking water today from our own fridge for the first time in several weeks.
• A meeting was held at the appointed 2:30pm time! Of course, once we got to the meeting, we were quickly whisked away in a gov't car to a completely different meeting along with the folks that we were originally supposed to meet. A little strange, but hey, nothing goes quite as planned around here. And it was an amazing wonder that each and every one of the poeple we were to meet at 2:30pm were there at 2:30pm!
• A fellow Albertan just walked through the doors of our guesthouse! He's here working with the UN, and came to pick up Sarah, one of the guests in the guesthouse. So now the only other Canadians I've met here (all two of them) both happen to be from Edmonton.

I just can't wait to see what's going to happen next around here!