Enough About the G20 Wives

I don't know why, but all the news feeds I get seem to dwell on the G20 wives (and now the NATO meeting wives). They keep lamenting Mr. Angela Merkel - he being the only non-wife at many of the spouse events.

Last night, I dreamt I was on a business trip in Cairo with all the management team in the Middle East. And like the G20, there were spouses along for the trip. Somewhere in my dream, I realized I had been given the itinerary for all the spouse events. And by the time I realized this, the meetings were nearly over. Being a dream and all - of course it made sense that I didn't realize this until later.

Once I realized, I was in a huge panic trying to find the meeting rooms where the business meetings were going on. And I kept being pulled back into the spouse meetings because for some reason Lyra had come along with me and not Russell. So, of course someone needed to watch her - and there was no time for my meetings or finding my meetings or even understanding what was going on. And I kept saying to myself, next time I really can't bring Lyra on a business trip.

Turns out all the spouse events were being held in my hotel room and the bell hop kept warning me that someone was running up a huge telephone bill by making international calls from my room. Plus, they kept trying to delivery someone else's laundry to the room but I wouldn't sign for it or accept the charges. Needless to say, the laundry service was fairly miffed and kept bringing around other spouses to tell me that I should take the trousers. But really, they were red flannel with matching red fez and I could see no way that I would actually use them.

In the end, a giant snowball the size of a small car flew across the sky and hit a radio tower which fell across the hotel and we all fled as a fire ensued.