Icing on the Cake

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“What day do you want to go Christmas shopping?” Calum asked me inside the restaurant. We were having lunch with our lawyer to go over our investments. We were still waiting for him to arrive. Right as Calum asked that, Kyle, our lawyer, showed up.

As we were having lunch, Kyle gave some inconvenient news.

“Basically,” Kyle started, “Your investment in Greece is having some troubles with the destabilization of the European Union and rocked Greek economy, there is a lot of paperwork that needs to be signed, but it can’t be mailed or done over the phone due to Greek law systems.”

“What does that mean?” Calum asked.

“We need one of you to go to Greece to sign the papers. The investment agency is willing to pay for the flight and for hotel accommodations.

After discussion, we decided that I would be the one to go to Greece to sign the papers. The flight was a few days later.

I flew from Sydney to Athens. The company had a cab waiting for me to take me to a hotel. I checked in that, night, slept and woke up to go to the investment offices. In a way I wished that I had time to sight see because it was so gorgeous.

But I would want my family there with me if I was going to do that, anyway. Maybe we would take a family vacation here sometime.

In the investment offices, we spent a few hours going over papers and signing them. It was evening when it was done. I didn’t want to go to a restaurant alone for dinner, so I just ordered from a familiar food chain and ate in my hotel room with the TV on.

Calum and I skyped that night. I told him that we have to do a family vacation there sometime. After showing him the view, he agreed.

The next morning, it was time to go home. I got on the plan and prepared for the 22 hour flight.

About three hours in, we hit some bad turbulence. The captain said that we would have to make an emergency landing because of the weather. Where were we landing?

Dubai.

Notes

I'm going somewhere with this I swear.