reason 9,875 to not play with matches.

So Nick, Andrew Brown and I were at the beach playing Yahtzee. (Which incidentally, Andrew will claim he was the winner even though EACH of the three of us won two games-- so go figure. I don't want to be down on the guy-- I mean I am sure cheatface is a sin habit that is not easy to recover from.)

Anyway. We were at the beach. We had just taken a break from playing and had ordered lunch... Tassot (beef) for me (even though I received grillot-- pork). Lambi (conch) for Nick, and pwason (fish) for Andrew. While we were waiting on the food, Nick decided to do some snorkeling out by the reefs and my phone rang. It was the frantic voice of our cook Magalie, "Gwenn ou bezwen vini-- kay'w pran dife!" (Gwenn, you need to come here, your house is on fire!) Right then the connection cut out (her phone card ran out) and I (equally as frantically) tried to call back. And when I couldn't get her, I tried Hugues, and Rodler, and Felecia, and St. Cia since they all were at my house. (Or at least I thought they were.) I also called Mikey in hopes he was close.

Andrew went out in the ocean to go fetch Nick and I finally got back through to Magalie... the fire, which she informed me was in my bed, was out.

Nick burned rubber getting back home and found this scene:




Long story short. Nico decided it would be fun to play with the matches he found in the backyard but he knew he'd get in trouble so he went upstairs and into our room as he knew we were out. After lighting the bed on fire he initially tried to pour a cup of water on it and was surprised to realize that didn't help. Nia heard the commotion and ran to get Wildarne. Wildarne came in and ran out to get Prisca. Prisca came in and ran and told Jerry. Jerry came in and had the sense to go downstairs and tell an adult.

Mad props to Rodler (the security guard) for extinguishing the blazing mattress/box spring. So thankful to God that no one was injured. This could have been very bad.

Nico was scared out of his mind.

Yes he's been punished.

Here he is cleaning up his mess.

Phew. Never a dull moment.