I know, I know - it's been so long since I wrote about the weather you were missing it, no?
Well, we were away for a vacation (more later), but have returned in time for the Dia de los Muertos festivities. There was a festival featuring, among other things, a concert with an earth harp (you don't really want to know what we thought of that, do you?), cemeteries to visit, altars to ancestors to view; all that sort of stuff.
Then, after the big party last night, it began to rain. It's still raining tonight. For most of last night and today it was a slow, gentle rain but it has increased at times so that there's plenty of runoff on the streets. [About 0.86" as of now.] We took the bus downtown today rather than a taxi to save our pesos, and when we returned (also by bus) we walked across the supermarket's parking lot, past the gym, and then was faced with our street. The street runs up a hill so there's always lots of water down at our end.
We made it through without getting too wet. And earlier we had the challenging feat of finding a bus downtown in the downpour. Bless large umbrellas. The weather was bad enough that not too many folks were taking the bus, so there were seats available. Count your blessings where you find'em!
Perhaps tomorrow I'll tackle the beginning of our vacation report - Aloha!
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