The heels and waxing really hurt, but overall they were some funweeks."Nick sat quietly thinking about what his parents had just told him. Hisparents... didn't seem any different from having participated in this. Hisdad was very masculine and his mom was very feminine and they were bothstraight."Don't worry," his mom said, "your dad didn't become girly after SwapWeek. After the week is over everyone returns to his or her normal life.Although the hair might take a little while to grow back there. As the rounds began to hit the vehicle I instantly froze. It was Carla all over again, I was going to die in this god-forsaken land and I was so afraid that I actually peed my pants.We made it through and even though I was scared to death I was able to fire back even while driving on, as fast as I could. I just stuck my weapon out the window and laid down a clip full of rounds in the general direction of the enemy fire. We got past the ambush unscathed except for vehicle body damage.Once we. " His voice sounded through the door.As I entered I glanced at his computer, it was off, but I could tell he had only recently turned it off, Paul smiled at me from the edge of his bed."No more surfing tonight young man," I smiled at him "you've got school tomorrow." Aw mum," he sighed, "we go through this every weeknight. I'm always off by ten, you know that." I know," I laughed "but I'm a mother and it's my job to nag."He laughed with me then turned to get ready for bed, I bade him goodnight. "Doris nodded and we went to wake up the rest of the families. At breakfast, Elaine remarked that she noted the power blinks and that she guessed it would not get better.I reset work parties to get generating power set up for the coming power failure. At first, we thought of portable generators like what a Home Depot or Lowe's would sell. As I thought further and talked with Doris and Elaine as well as Jim in Chapel Hill, the realization dawned that I was not thinking big enough. We went out.