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Greetings from Rome, Italy!!
Gina and I are having a fantastic time in the beautiful city of Rome. I am seriously humbled by the beautiful sights, architecture, people, food - the list goes on and on. I had a big plan to fully verse you in the interesting happenings of our trip thus far with things such as the traffic laws - or lack thereof -in this city, the great sights of the Sistine Chapel, St. Peters Basilica and the Panthenon, and finish with how exactly it was that Gina happened to be kissing the scantly clad man in front of the Colisieum, but today's story was totally overshadowed by an email I received from Mike. It seems that he had quite the first night of single-daddedness. I have pasted it below for your review:
From: Mike Lamers
Subject: Day one...when life gives you lemons...
Well, If you take a little bit of artistic license you can compare our first night here alone to some sort of wacky job interview process, a job interview to see if I am a good enough dad to take care of my kids while you are in Europe. If one were bold enough to make that comparison then last nights interview was an interview with God himself (or herself as the case may be). What do you do if Andria gets sick? A little bit of TLC of course… remember she looses her appetite, folic acid for the lip, asthma meds twice a day, Tylenol cough for nighttime and don’t forget the antibiotics. If you encountered one of the worst storms that you could remember in Thunder Bays history, how would you explain the noise the wind makes and loud crashing sound that the vents in the laundry room make when the wind slams them open and closed? Just grab the kids and hold em under the covers with you and every time you here the noise have them repeat after you... LOUD NOISE.. (Pronounced WOWD NOISE). What do you do when the power goes outand everything is PITCH BLACK, no moon, no streetlights at all? (And when I say goes out I mean goes out, none of this easy flicks off then back on stuff). Well you could head down to where the candles are, just follow your nose to that cupboard that smells like a perfume shop, grab as many candles as you can carry and head upstairs to try and figure out how to find matches (that you can never find in broad daylight) in complete darkness? (Hint use your cell phone as a light source when all else fails). And last but not least, what do you do when the whole neighborhood is pitch black except for a few burning candles here and there and you notice that one of the neighbors has set their house on fire? That’s an easy one… you Teach the kids the word FIRETRUCK.
- Mike