The Grass Is Always Greener...

...when it rains!!! That's right folks, last night it finally rained for real! Supposedly, July & August are the 'rainy' months. Well, it didn't rain once in July and in the past week, it's sprinkled twice, so I've been a little disappointed with this so-called rainy season. I just figured that maybe, this being the desert and all, they thought that a few little sprinkles was rain. Was I wrong! Last night, the biggest storm that I've seen in the Sandbox rolled through around midnight. There was tons of lightning...no thunder, although I'm not sure why...and lots of wind and dust, but by the time I went to bed it still hadn't rained.

This morning, we woke up to lakes! The first picture is the courtyard that we see from our balcony. And then the second picture is the soccer field across the paved road. Every night there are 2 or 3 games going on...probably not tonight, although there have been kids out there playing all day long. This morning, the wind was blowing over the soccer field towards us and it was really a cool breeze.
On a sadder note, when it rains, even a little, all the refugee camps flood. There are tons of them all over around here and they all flooded just when it was sprinkles so I'm sure that today they are all completely underwater.