Rainy Days

It has been raining off and on for the past two weeks. We are in the middle of the rainy season, and we are getting our share for sure. Saturday I got the pick up truck stuck in the mud at school. The roads are all washed out and muddy, and there are huge potholes of water everywhere. Thankfully, when I got stuck at school, there was this guy from Alabama there who was down visiting, and he jumped right in the mud and helped push me out- in his dockers, boat shoes and everything. I was impressed. Yesterday Erica and I went to go for a bike ride, and our bike locks had rusted shut in a weeks time. We pulled out the WD 40, and after a few minutes of spraying, scraping and jamming we got the locks free. Our yard is a soupy mess of mud, and our shoes are constantly wet. My Rainbows haven't had a chance to dry out this whole time, and my feet are stained a nice brown color.

Yesterday afternoon Erica and I went and played volleyball with some of the girls from the team. There was a beach barbeque going on and loud reggae music playing. The court was one huge mud hole. There were a few boys playing on the court and they let us join them to play a game. We all ended up covered in mud, and I took a few nice dives right into the mud hole. The back of my shirt and my shorts were covered with slimy mud. It was fun though, and we played for several hours. Then we biked the girls to our house- two girls per bike. Erica and I are getting pretty good at riding double. One person sits on the seat like normal and then the other girl sits on the handlebars. Then we go riding down the streets, dodging pots holes, speed bumps and crazy drivers. We were told that it is actually illegal to ride like this, even though this is how the whole town rides, and seeing as their are no policemen we figure we will be allright. We figure that, in this case, it will be easier to ask for forgivness than ask for permission.