Jacob missed having the tv on, especially for background noise. Thank goodness for the dry erase board. I think we went through a full package of markers in two days. I took out the two Christmas presents that I had for them to help pass the time. Brandon spent most of the time with his friends, but did whine about no tv a couple of times. Then, when the power did come back on, the only thing he wanted to do was play a board game. Somewhere, the computer ate my picture of them wrestling around together on air mattresses. Lots of time spent outside cleaning up debris, eating on our camping pop-up picnic table, talking to neighbors.