Friday, November 20, 2009
Rainy Season
Hello Everyone!
So as I mentioned before, it is rainy season. I haven't yet managed to have my camera on me when the river is raging, but coming home today the roads were flooding a bit, water overspilling the foot-deep channels on either side of the road. So I got my camera and took a video for you all. The location is just down the road from our house.
Elisa and I had quite the Rainy Season Adventure yesterday - we went shopping in the open-air Alto market, which is huge and mazelike, and all of a sudden it started hailing like the dickens. The whole morning had been sunny and too hot, but within 15 minutes the ground was covered in an inch of hail. And as it melted, and as the hail turned to rain, the streets turned into rivers of muddy water. Elisa and I got totally soaked, especially when we had to walk down a huge twisting flight of stairs which had a creek pouring down it suddenly! Water splashing up to our calves. We should have remembered our umbrellas, but that wouldn't really have helped our legs at all.
In other news, complete recovery on my bug bite, praise the Lord! And also, I would just like to say that I am so blessed by people sending me mail. At the end of my bug-bite-bed-riddenness, I went to the post office and there were five things for me! A letter from Beth Goh, two letters from Katherine the Great, a card from my mom and my grandma, and a package from the amazing Walsh family!! And how cool is this: four out of those five letters contained stickers! You guys are all so awesome!
Love to everyone,
Rachael
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Finally! I am the first person to post. Rach, you rock my socks off! I wish I could go shopping with you and Elisa, the Alto sounds so much more exciting than San Miguel. Miss you friend. Give everyone a hug for me.
Hailing like the dickens is still preferable to hailing Dickens, whether the author or his work. Heavy stuff! Weather in Toronto has been extremely mild - we're hovering in the single digits but it sounds like it's a lot more pleasant than Victoria right now!
It sounds like what you needed was an umbrella AND a kayak. I was once at a camp where it rained so much that the camp nurse kayaked across the field... so I *know* it's possible!
Hey Rach! I love your description of your rainy season adventure with Elisa! That is hilarious!!! I can just imagine you two skipping around in the creeks of water, hopelessly trying to get as little wet as possible, and then giving up entirely when you realized it was a lost cause... I read it out to Jerram and he liked it, he said he was in La Paz around this time four years ago, but it wasn't that wet when he was there.
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