Friday Night Lights in the Sky

Friday was the kid's first day of summer vacation. It started out in a bit of a rush for the 3 of us because I had to be somewhere on the other side of town at 8:30 and had to take them to their gymnastics day camp even further on the other side of town before that. So instead of a leisurely get up and take your time first day of vacation, we were bustling around getting fed, dressed, lunches packed, and out the door earlier than usual. That ain't right!


Then I had a heck of a day. Got eaten by fleas at my first stop of the day.. a person with two cats, two-too-many cats. Ick. My work day didn't get worse after that, just longer.

Thank goodness today is MY first day of a 10-day vacation. We're gonna hit the pool this afternoon!

But back to yesterday. Francisco left early yesterday morning for a short trip to Ecuador to see his mom. He called in the late afternoon and said he was in Miami, had been on the runway (in the airplane) ready to take off, when they cancelled the flight. Both major airports in Ecuador and one in Peru were closed due to volcanic ash, from Tungurahua, (pronounced Tune-Goo-Rah-Wha) which is the volcano near Francisco's home town, Baños.

Francisco asked if I would look online for more information about the volcano. So Jeremiah and I got online and googled the newspaper website for Quito. The head line read, in Spanish, “Dos poblaciones de Baños evacuados...” which should translate as “Two neighborhoods of Baños evacuated...” Jeremiah saw a “TRANSLATE” button at the top of the newspaper's website, so we clicked on that thinking Jeremiah could then read the article in English. But the headline translated as

Two Bathroom Populations Evacuated...

So we decided the article in English might not be, well, very reliable.

We called Francisco in Miami and shared that little tidbit with him, which did make him laugh for probably the first time since being on that runway earlier...

LATER that night, the kids and I decided it would be great to lay out on the trampoline and look up at the stars. We did and then we were so comfy the kids went and got blankets and pillows. We even thought about sleeping there, until the neighbor's dog started barking at us, and then Wolf started barking to go inside. So we did what Wolf told us.  We went inside and got in bed and went to sleep where Wolf knows we belong.