The Pope's Progress

It's Richard's turn to write, but I couldn't wait for him.... something hilarious happened last night that I know our kids will enjoy reading, so I decided to put it in writing before I forget, since there are no pictures - thankfully - to document the event:
At 3:00 a.m. I hear the biggest thud and hear Richard moan and say, "I fell out of bed... I was having a nightmare .... a crocodile was getting me!" I turned on the light to find him on the floor, wrapped in the sheet and unable to get up. He hit his head on the nightstand as he went down, and his ear was bleeding, so I was trying not to laugh. I loosened the sheets from him and gave him a hand to get up and he said, "What the HELL!" So kids, picture this, if you dare... dad on the floor, tied up in a sheet, with his C-PAP apparatus on his head, struggling to get up, and me trying not to laugh! But all is well, he said that as he was bandaging his ear he was chuckling to himself. When we laughed about it this morning and I told him he got up "cussing," he couldn't remember that part :)

Well, last week was the celebration of Chile's Independence, and unlike the US where one day is celebrated, here two days are official, but the whole week is an unofficial celebration. Our office was closed with all the workers on vacation, so we were told to take a few days "off". Most of the city parks host entertainment, dancing, food, crafts, rodeos, circus, kite flying, foos ball, and we enjoyed watching and eating almost everything available. We also saw a wonderful military parade march right past our apartment building.