Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Lesson #4

ELECTRICITY IN SPAIN

One of the very first things that we learned here....

is that you can only run 3 appliances in your house at once without tripping the breakers.

That 3 INCLUDES your fridge.    !!!!!

It was probably the 2nd or 3rd day we were here.....  we were washing a load of clothes, and I was baking a pizza in the oven for the girls...

I had just gotten out of the shower - and I went upstairs to blow dry my hair.  The blow dryer worked for about 3.5 seconds.  Then....nothing.

A few minutes later Brad informs me that the fridge has shut off.

He went and tinkered with the breaker in the basement until things came back on.  However, I learned that I can NOT blow dry my hair, wash clothes, and use the oven at the same time.

BUMMER.  :(

Now we know to mentally ask ourselves before doing anything....am I using any other electrical appliance right now???

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