Rescuing a honeymoon

David Squillante and Doran Smith, both 38, of Bristol, RI got married and were on their  belated honeymoon in Spain when they became famous.  Wednesday morning they were walking on their way to a park tour in Barcelona Spain when Doran noticed women screaming from a flaming building entryway. The sign said it was nursery or daycare for babies. David immediately dropped his backpack and ran across the stree’ into the smoking building’s front door.  “I just ran in and saw a bunch of babies sleeping and screaming,” David, who comes from a family of firefighters, told NBC News. David speaks very little Spanish but said ‘instinct took over’ as he ran into the burning building and straight into the smoky playroom. “I saw a flame coming out of the doorway, next to the door that these women had come out of,” Doran said.

“Instinct took over,” David said. “I found myself looking at 15, 20 babies and immediately just kind of lined everyone up and we started grabbing them, putting them into the cribs. The playroom, where the children were, had not yet caught fire when the couple arrived to help.  ‘It did seem like we walked by right when the chaos was starting.” David began placing around 20 children into wheeled cribs as the smoke got heavier and wheeled them out to his new wife, all while trying to calm the nursery staff. He found one of the children hiding in a playhouse and handed the child off to Doran, who said the baby seemed frightened but wasn’t crying like the others. The staff likely hadn’t evacuated the building yet because “there weren’t flames in the nursery. I think the staff was just trying to figure out where the smoke was coming from and trying to decide what to do. We couldn’t speak the language, but there was a universal language – we were all just trying to help.” As others jumped in, they started passing babies down a line out of the building and into a local high school across the street. The whole process took around 10 minutes, the couple said. The honeymooners left soon after the firefighters arrived and they believe no one was injured. Since the fire, David said he is looking into following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps and becoming a volunteer firefighter.

Honeymoon Humor

A man and a women are in Hawaii on their honeymoon. They start arguing over the pronunciation of “Hawaii.”
The man says it is pronounced “Hawaii” while the woman firmly believes it is pronounced “Havaii.”
The woman is sick of this silly argument interfering with their vacation so she asks a local how it is pronounced and he says “Havaii.”
The woman was elated to hear that she was correct and thanks the local for his help.
He responds, “You’re Velcome.”


After our honeymoon in Niagara Falls, I felt like a new man. My wife said she did too. 

Rinky: “Wow, you went on a 3 week honeymoon to Milan, Barcelona and Paris. What did you see?”
Pinky : “Ceiling fans”

News just in of a honeymooner killed in a shark attack off the Perth Coast. The man had been married very recently. A police spokesman said:
Fortunately the man did not suffer too much as he had only been married 5 days.

November 2nd Birthdays

1961 – k. d. lang, 1755 – Marie Antionette, 1998 – Briell Barbusca, 1942 – Stefanie Powers

1734 – Daniel Boone, 1967 – Scott Walker, 1966 – David Schwimmer, 1985 – Danny Amendola

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

A man for all seasons