The Best Neighbors

We really lucked out with our new neighbors.  Often neighbors can make or break your living experience here in Germany.  We have had nothing but very nice, sociable, responsible neighbors since moving to Germany.  We have heard complete horror stories from others so we know we are quite lucky. 

The idea of good neighbors is even more important when buying a place. We definitely will not be living anywhere else while we are living in Germany and the neighbor situation was really an afterthought when buying the house.  And boy, did we luck out.  Our neighbors we are closest to (physically and friendship wise) live next door. Our driveways are separated by just a short, wire type fence.  They have a boy a year older than Josie and a girl a year older than Benjamin.  We don't see their son much but when we had first moved in, their daughter would come over and jump on the trampoline with Josie and Josie would go over to play with their two cute little bunnies.  Since all of the Corona stuff we have texted and talked

more across the fence.  We ask each other if we can pick up anything at the store, I have borrowed some German reading books for our kids while we don't have access to our school library and they lent me a large cast iron roaster so I can make my bread.  We haven't done anything really socially with them but I think once things get back to normal we should have them over for a drink or dinner or dessert.
About a week or two into lockdown I asked if she needed anything.  She said she didn't but that her parents needed some tomatoes.  Not thinking a thing of it I picked up a small basket of tomatoes.  When her parents came by for what seems like a daily visit (they live just a couple blocks away) I handed them to her.  They were very

appreciative but I didn't think a thing about it.  Well, on Friday I get a message asking if I have refrigerator space for a special gift.  Her mom made a DELICIOUS cake with whipped cream frosting and a currant type frosting in the middle topped with shaved chocolate.  A Happy Easter, Late moving in, thank you for the tomatoes cake.  WOW!!  SO so nice!!!  Thankful to have such kind and thoughtful neighbors.
The very nice evening ended with some trampoline time for all of us.  Whoop Whoop!!