The Funnies

So today had a few serious moments but let's not overlook the funny stuff. My sister and I, her name is Eleni too, hung out all day. Early this afternoon we decided we wanted to have a "winter" moment so we put on some Christmasy music and we were going to light the fireplace. Eleni went downstairs to collect the firewood. For a brief moment I felt like "wow, me and my sister are sitting and chatting during the holidays" the way it should be :) She came up stairs and put the wood in the fireplace and proceeded to tell me she had never lit it before; it was always Nick, her husband, who lit it. Really, how difficult could it be? With two Eleni's, anything's possible :) So, she took some paper towels and saturated them with some local stuff they use, i'm guessing like a firestarter, gas, type stuff that they keep in this clear bottle. She also saturated the wood and the entire fireplace with it. We had a great fire going, except we couldn't get the wood to catch fire - it was only the fuel that was burning off and then fire would go out. We tried again, and again, and again - this happened for about 2 hours. Our fire was basically the fuel and we had to keep refueling it to keep the fire going. We were cracking up laughing. That was our fire - ha! the fuel, the firewood was really just for decoration apparently. Finally, we called Nick. Oh Nick, oh wise one. "Go get some small sticks to starts the fire" he tells her - aha! Eureka! So she went and got some small sticks and I'll be darned - it worked :) Clearly, this was a man's job - ha! I think we laughed the entire time at the fact that our fire had to be fed every so often, just too funny!