School Cancelled

Today, Anthony took Ashley to school this morning since he had taken the day off. When he took her, they told him that there was no electricity or running water at school and they had no idea why. He could leave her and see if it came back on and they would call us to pick her up shortly if it didn't. Hmmm...definitely not something we'd experience back home, in the absence of any storms, weather phenomenom, etc. So, he left her, hoping the water and electricity would come back on. About an hour later though, I got a text message on my phone (very popular way of communicating here) that we needed to come pick up our children if possible. Anthony went and picked her up and they had no further news as to what caused the problem or when it would fixed. Ashley seemed excited to have another day at home with Daddy until lunch time - then she said she wanted to go back to school because they were having a buffet in her classroom. I learned from her that they were setting up lunch in the classrooms (lunch is catered by our complex clubhouse, which did have electricity) for those kids that had to stay at school. Usually lunch is eaten in the "basement" where the cafeteria is, but due to no electricity, it would be very dark down there. Ashley would have loved to have eaten in her classroom, but we said no, she had to eat at home with the adults - how sad.