Spookiest Halloween ever

So after the impromtu rugby party people went home, and hubby and I delivered daughter and son to two different Halloween parties. Finally an evening home alone, no teenies rummaging the fridge or laying siege to the big TV in the living room, watching How I met your Mother for the umpteenth time (there´ll always be one television station broadcasting that series, I fear)! A bottle of wine was brought up from the cellar, and hubby and I finally lighted a cigar (you should never smoke in front of your children, to set a good example!) and switched on TV to watch a scary Halloween movie (there was none, so a crime film had to suffice). We weren´t even halfway through our cigars when electricity bowed off with a bang. Hubby amd I fumbled for the ash tray which isn´t easy when you have to take care of glasses and a bottle and and...and of course no mobile at hand, to at least once use the flashlight function. We found some candles and braced ourselves for twenty romantic minutes (that´s the usual period of time it takes for our technicians to solve the problem). We even opened the windows to let out the stench of the cigars (it´s quite warm outside for the end of October), this way realizing that the whole estate was without power, when all of a sudden a strong wind sprang up, extinguishing all candles but the one on our sideboard, the one with the family photos on it. A coincidence, of course, but quite effective considering the date. Obviously our technicians had problems this time, because electricity only came back at midnight, so we sat in the candlelit living room for more than two hours, all the while listening to the foehn storm rioting outside. What a way to spend a Halloween evening!