Shots Fired!

A night a few weeks ago there was a bang, bang, bang, ... of fire works outside. As a joke I told Vanessa, quick get the kids in the tub, it's a drive by! In retrospect, here in Germany is a huge change from where we first lived in Maryland. We were inside the beltway just outside of DC (New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring), and in fact we did occasionally hear gunfire at night. On the weekends there was an almost constant sound of police and ambulance sirens going back and forth. In the paper I would read about growing gang problems and armed robberies all around us. It is much nicer here.