THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi I

[maro]

[RomaShield27]

[Italiamia]

Sorry Tommaso, I forgot, Happy Anniversary. I'm sure you find yourself saying se non fossimo già sposati, ti chiederei di sposarmi to your wife, right? At least I hope so. I guess we could translate that as "if we were not already married, I would ask you to marry me all over again". All the best my friend.

[maro]

Thank you, gentlemen, though more thanks to one than to the other. Anyway, Shield isn't it about time you made an honest woman of the ex-ex? Or is that the hidden agenda of the NY trip? Apparently that's what she's been telling her girly friends, anyway. We're off to (old) York ourselves for a few days next week - the moglie has a little conference and then we're going to spend a bit of time winding down ahead of the start of the new teaching year, so that's going to be our proper little anniversary jaunt. Not quite as exciting or as ambitious as Shieldy's trip, but better than nothing, no doubt. I've tucked that phrase away in case things get sticky when she finds our winding down includes a little bit of time in front of Cluj on Tuesday or Wednesday or whenever it is.

[RomaShield27]

An honest woman, ha no, God no, not yet, anyway. NoooOOo. I'm still a young feller you know, Tomás, plenty of time for that carry on (like in 10 years). Sounds like a nice trip to York to spend some QT together before ye go back to the grind, although good to see you've (finally) got your priorities straight for the Tuesday or Wednesday night.

[aba_bab]

MARTHAFUCKERS! This is such a bad week... francesco!! I hope you know that your pansy embassy just denied me a visa to transit there!!! Bloody hell... i dont get thissss!!!!! Thats pretty much my Rome trip in smokes... unless i want to buy a brand new ticket that flies me straight out of there, which means i'd have wasted my ticket.. marthafucking fookfoooooooooooooookkkkkkkk!!!! When it fucking rains.. its fucking pours fucking fuck fuck!

[aba_bab]

Oh and Happy Anniversary Professor. Hope your visa to York gets rejected.

[maro]

dibdib, I'll give Marco a call and see if he can pull some strings for you.

[RomaShield27]

Maro doesn't travel in conventional methods. He goes the back-ways, cross-country, armed only with his rawhide back-pack and walking stick, avoiding all need for such modern concepts as visa's.

[maro]

Some people take their Kendal Mint Cake; I prefer my Lembas.

[stefano]

Aba, are you a terrorist? All kidding aside, how do you run into so much difficulty obtaining travel visas? Maro, happy anniversary and all that jazz.

Giova, where do we stand with reservations in New York? Is there anything I need to do here? I may now be bringing a different girl to dinner, not that it matters, but I need to figure that out at some point. Oh and Ed, in the case that Maro has correctly identified the purpose of your trip to New York, I hope you realize that you actually have to marry an American to become a citizen (taking notes here, Aba?). Simply proposing young lady of Erin won't do the trick.

This international break is bullshit. Where is Roma?

[RomaShield27]

A "different girl to dinner", lol, do ya hear him. Stop showing off Stevie, we all know its gonna be an expensive escort. Yeah, so where do we stand? Lupa Restaurant? That place looks good to me. And no fears of any proposal talk, defo not on the menu there.

[maro]

lol. Shield, you know the first thing that grasso is going to say when he meets you is "I hear congratulations are in order" and then when the ex-ex casts you a slightly quizzical look he'll pretend to be embarrassed and say "oh, shit, have you not got round to asking her yet."

[stefano]

Shield, I see you've caught on to part of my plan. I may as well just spill the rest of it. So I've hired an expensive escort to distract you while I steal your girl. What do you like, blondes, brunettes, Asians, Blacks, Latinas, Inuit (that last one could be tough, but if such is your taste, I will try my best)? Lupa looks good though. Giova, have you placed a reservation or should I do so?

[maro]

Shield's not picky - any girl who's Inuit will do. Actually, Avvocato, you may want to make the booking for 7 since grasso's most likely to end up asking them both along and then seeing how things unfold from there.

[stefano]

[RomaShield27]

[stefano]

[stefano]

[Kroo]