Rain

Today I got caught in the rain, and it was fabulous! We were walking home and the rain started to fall very lightly and gently, which was fine except it sort of steams on the sidewalk and you feel like dirty air is swirling up onto you. If you don't think about what's in the rising vapor it's fine, but I have seen some things on those sidewalks -- ew.

So we're walking and we're laughing about how we're trying not to think about the dirty street breath getting on us, when the sky opened and the rain came DOWN! We were immediately wet to the skin. It's like stepping into a shower. We were half a block from home and there was no saving us -- we were soaked! We just laughed and held our hands up to the sky -- it's the most amazing feeling to have so much water pouring on you in the middle of the sidewalk in the middle of the day in the middle of what was actually a tiny little tropical rainstorm! We passed our friendly noodle guy, and he kindly offered us an umbrella -- but it was way too late. The girls in the massage salon on our street laughed and gave us thumbs up as we went by. Our doormen scrambled to get us brollies at first, but then realized we were way past their efforts.

It was wonderful!