Good evening, and welcome to Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudhary.

I'm DJ Lubel, the shows producer.

Tonight's tale is about a family that seems to forget one of the most important rules

when going on vacation.

And in Rome, do as the Romans do, or at least always listen to their warnings.

Please enjoy the children taken.

Once upon a time, there was a family of travelers that didn't heed the advice of locals.

The vacation began as many vacations do, with absolutely nothing going according to plan.

Sarah and Tom had planned the trip months ago, finding a week where their schedules aligned

and they could slip away together, leaving the kids behind even if just for a few days

was no easy task.

Their lives were a hectic, constant swirl of work, school events, after school activities,

soccer and tennis camp, and piano lessons for the kids.

They could barely come up for air and lately had been feeling like strangers to each other.

So spending an intimate few days in a luxury hotel in the mountains was what they needed

to recharge and reconnect.

But their bags were already packed when it all fell apart.

A stomachache had morphed into full blown appendicitis, and just like that, the world's

most trustworthy babysitter, Tom's sister, no less, couldn't make it.

Jeremy was only eight, and Stephanie had just turned 10, not nearly old enough to leave

alone, and finding someone they trusted that could keep the kids for a week at the last

minute wasn't possible.

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