How many people does it take to turn on a light switch?

Apparently at least 7 in our house!
For the past week or so we have been trying to figure out how to turn the outside outlets on in our new house. We have (4) outside outlets. After putting up the Halloween decorations we noticed the box by our front door was not working. We asked one of our neighbors who mentioned that there is a switch inside the front closet to turn it on - is that obvious? Well we found the switch...but still no power! After talking with a contractor who came over to bid out some work on our house he mentioned that there must be a GFI outlet somewhere in the house that was tripped - all the fuses in the box were "live." Finally our other neighbor mentioned they had a GFI in their basement that was linked to their outside outlets. Hmmm. After searching about half a dozen GFI outlets Shawn finally found the magic outlet that was tripped - in the basement behind our steps. I think builders need to get a little more obvious - like maybe next to the outlet swtich in the front closet!

Finally we think we have now figured out all the odd funtions of our new home - and we now have power for our Halloween decorations!!! The boys are happy.