Saturday, October 04, 2008

Rain!!

We woke up to cloudy skies and rain. Rain!! The first rain in months. Actually it started yesterday afternoon, startling the Daughter on her way back from school. She got a bit afraid, our California girl... Well, if you haven't felt rain in your hair in months, and months is an eternity for kids, I guess it can be a bit of a weird feeling.

The whole family was all excited and dressed in long pants and socks. Because rain means it's colder. Right? Or - old habits are hard to break...

Well, actually it was cooler today - and pretty nice actually. We could keep the windows open all day! This is however the first time in 5 years it has become cooler and actually rained before the Daughter's birthday celebrations are over.W Usually it's been +25-30C and sunny and we've always been outdoors. Today we actually had to hold the birthday party indoors. Not that it still was raining in the afternoon - those rain clouds were long gone - but everything outside was sort of mushy and wet. There is a first time for everything!

Warm weather is returning on Monday - with a high around +30C. So we still have to keep those shorts available in the closets...

2 comments:

BritGirl said...

Yeah but Im still trying to work out why they called it a storm!!!
In England we would have called it light drizzle!

JaCal said...

Britgirl - yeah... they have the concepts a bit wrong... we always giggle when they say there is a "freeze warning" in effect and it means it's -1C...