FIRE!

At 11:30 last night after we were all cleaned up and packed doing the last load of laundry and running the dishwasher Amity says “John it smells like something’s burning”.  She opens the electrical closet and there were flames!   She yelled Fire!  Luckily the kids new right where the extinguisher was and we put it out.  Their 911 is actually 112 and I had it programmed in my phone but it did not go through even with the country code.  The Airbnb host got back to us immediately and lined up another place for us to use.  I shut the main power off for our flat at the street level and we left the smoke filled powerless condo.  Mac drove us since Amity and I had just finished some Gozo Wine we purchased.  Due to construction their was no way to get to the other Airbnb so Mac drove us to the airport.  He did an amazing job with a stick shift on the opposite side of the road down those tiny streets.  We parked in the rental return at 1:30 AM and slept until 5.  We made our flight and slept a little more.   We’re in Rome and ready to light it up:)