Merry Christmas Eve

Santa is coming tonight. Turned out the cops were as well.

We were over at Nick's Aunts tonight for Christmas Eve supper. I was drinking a little bit of wine and ended up feeling really sick from it. If I ever think of drinking again, just say "Christmas eve". I don't want to drink any more but I'll miss wine. Maybe I will have a couple of ounces if it's really good wine but that's it. I still feel sick and we left Sue & Jim's an hour ago.

As we pull up to the apartment, there is a cop car sitting up the street (near jasper ave in front of the old church); there is another one sitting in the driveway that we use to get underground;there is a third parked on the lawn; there are two more parked on the street in front of the building. We figured that since we couldn't access our parking spot this evening we would just use one of the visitor spots. As we drive around back, another cop car is parked behind the building. If everybody is counting, we're up to 6. We park and go in the back door where we are intercepted by our landlord, RJ. RJ says that we are going to have to use the stairs and to not be surprised when we pass the fifth floor. Turns out that it's a bit of a problem that we live on the fifth floor. We were going to have to wait to get upstairs.

While we were standing there waiting, it was disclosed to us that there was a major drug bust going on in the apartment right across from the elevators. (For those of you who were here on Saturday night, this was also the commotion in the hallway and the cause of the broken light.) Yikes! They led these two women passed us while we were waiting in the back hall of the building. They were drug whores if I have ever seen drug whores. More Yikes, but directly for them.

We stand and wait, and wait. RJ finally talks to one of the officers and gains us an escort up to our apartment. That was a good thing because I was still really not feeling well. This cute cop takes the elevator with us to the 4th floor and then walks us up the stairs to the 5th. We have two cops standing there watching the hallway away from us while Nick unlocked the door. It was closed and locked before we even had a light on. While Nick was unlocking the door, I turned and looked down the hallway. Curiosity. There was a cop crouched at the corner with an assault rifle. In my hallway.

Curiosity won out once we had a door between us and the danger and a assault rifle at an angle were it would have killed the bad guy before he was able to shoot towards us. We watched at the spy hole and listened. They brought in police dogs. They broke down the guy's door after changing their positions and shouting "We are going to send in dogs. You may be bitten." Other than that it was actually pretty quiet. Not all loud like in the movies.

We had an officer knock on our door just a little bit ago to say that it was all taken care of and that he was out of the building. The management is changing the lock on that suite. What a way to get evicted and what a day for it to happen. RJ has said that if we hear any commotion in the hallway this evening, we are supposed to call him right away and that he would take care of it. He basically asked us to be his ears up here tonight and possibly for the next little while. I don't mind as long as it keeps everybody in the building safe. We are so going to be hightailing it out of the building tomorrow morning.

I'm loosing my ability to create sentences. Suffice to know that everything is okay and everybody is accounted to right down to their little toes.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.