bomb threat

today didn't really play out the way I had expected it to.  I was supposed to babysit and then go to work.  so i woke up and everything was going according to plan--i was babysitting for my mom's meeting and suddenly my mom tells me i need to go home right now because there was a bomb threat at a house right across the way from my house.  so i rushed home to help my sister collect the animals and get out of the house and away from there.  as i pulled up to my house the entrance to the street which the house was on was caution taped off and there were several fire trucks, cop cars, undercover cop cars, and cops guarding the entrance.  

so needless to say it was kind of a crazy day.  

reenie and i (plus amy, rusty, and maddie) went over to megan's for the afternoon--yay megan!! 

turns out that the house (which is the notorious crime house in our neighborhood. mom is a prostitute and has gone to jail for it several times.  son set a fire in the canyon behind our neighborhood.  all into drugs.  it is believed that they have a meth lab.  the dad has been sent away to jail.  the daughter has a baby.  and the list goes on and on...) had explosives buried in the backyard.  according to the news an ex convicted (thinking the mom) called the police reporting that a man (thinking it is the son who is like 23 or 4) was burying explosives in the yard and according to my neighbor who is the chief of the fire department they believed that if the bomb would blow it would take down a 3 block radius.  so eventually the cops got a search warrant and they found the bomb, removed it, and blew it up in this cool bomb squad truck/car thingy (i saw it as they were driving away it was like a truckish thing that had this metal box thingy on a trailer-like thingy and a circle metal thingy and i guess that is where they blew it up). so my hood is safe, but it was quite the unexpected event of the day.

not at all how i planed my day