Fire Alarm!

Today we managed to set off the smoke alarm in our house for the first time since moving in. We were having a calzone party when the alarm went off. Since we had a dozen people in the house, it was a little noisey so not everybody noticed when Sven started ordering people to go outside. Sven was climbing up the stairs yelling, "you have to go outside now!" and then, "you have to go out on the deck in your bare feet!" Finally we figured out that he thought the smoke alarm was the fire alarm, similar to the fire alarm that went off in our hotel in London - which caused everybody to evacuate the building. A few of the guests got a good chuckle out of that one - they couldn't figure out why he was so insistent about going outside in bare feet in the freezing cold rain.