bad boys and rolling black outs

bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you. well they aren't coming - and by they i mean the ariccia police force. after a prank/attempted break in by some (most likely drunk) young men, we took proper action by calling the local police squad. this was a complete waste of time, they thought we were a prank call! but i guess i don't blame them our phone call started with 'we live in the palace.' and then when we tried to explain men were trying to break in they asked what were we doing in the palace (we live here - duh), they were obviously not taking the phone call seriously. thankfully the men left us alone and soon the palace was peaceful again.

the aftermath.

the night before (monday night) we suffered from blackouts. during the 'dinner rush' in the kitchen, a loud pop sounded and then DARKNESS. at first we thought that the we blew a fuse in the kitchen, but we quickly realized that it was throughout the palace. olivia (our 'momma duck' / gta) called roberta to come to the rescue. roberta lives in the neighboring town of genzano, so we sat in the dark for a good 15 minutes until she arrived with her fiance. they toyed with the electrical box in a hidden corridor and the power was back on! YESSSSSS! but the light was quickly gone, the range made a weird noise noise and gave off a strange burning smell. no light again. thankfully roberta had not left yet and was able to fix the problem - do not use any appliances for 24 hours. good news though, everything is up and running now. i obviously did not get a picture of the blackout - because everything was black.