Rain and More Rain

4/21

So we woke up at about 10:30 and it was raining so we just sat in bed for a while—I looked at pictures on my computer. Later on it was still raining so we played blisters. In the evening it was still raining, so we showered and had dinner.

When it rains in a place where the only real thing to do is be outside—its not so much fun. So you take little things, such as the preparation of your food, or bathing yourself—and make them activities. Perhaps toasted peanut butter and jelly would be more filling…If I wash my hair a second time with this cheap shampoo will it be any softer? How many souvenir postcards should I write each day to be finished with them by the time we leave this place? With the money I have left, what is my daily allowance?

At least in Lennox when we had our rainy week we had homework to do, and 30 other people to play games with or talk to. Here, not so much either of the two. Of those in the hostel, a lot of them are pretty odd. I should be doing my math, but the internet is too slow and costly for that to be a practical idea.

Rachael and Craig went into town to get money, but I stayed because I don’t like riding on that bike. I guess they talked to the girls and they are all having a miserable time and annoying each other to death.

Other activities of the day included: writing postcards, watching the second half of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (but the sound isn’t great and the end of the DVD wouldn’t work…and ps...someone never fulfilled their promise) making souvenir lists, “packing” which was done for the purpose of rearranging our baggage and getting rid of clothes because both Rachael and I had baggage that was significantly overweight for travel within the US. Neither one of us really wanted to get rid of that much, so we put heavy books and things in our carry-ons and made a bag of “could but don’t-really-want-to throw away clothes.”

In going through and repacking everything neatly we showed each other our souvenirs and got really excited about being home and giving them to people.

Yesterday, while I was on the beach all day, I didn’t really wish I was home. But we have now heard a forecast that calls for heavy rain until Wednesday.

Please God, send sun. I’m trying to go to church tomorrow, so just take that into consideration.

Our Kitchen I Sat in Most of The Day