My favorite thing...

It rained again yesterday only this time it rained during the day. I have to explain that when it rains around here you would think it was a blizzard in the middle of summer in Florida. Everything stops, everyone goes home, it's like the world is coming to an end. It's even one of those things you remember. Sort of like 'remember that one time that it snowed on Thanksgiving in Dallas?'. Anyone in Dallas remembers that day and probably where they were when it happened. Around here it is more like 'remember that one day when it rained during the day?' Ok, so now that we have the picture painted...

Us crazy white folks had a birthday to celebrate and we don't let anything rain on our parade so we headed out into the great unknown. We had to kick it into 4WD and broke the 'never drive through water when you don't know how deep it is rule' but that's only b/c we'd driven on the road a million times and, if we wanted to pull away from our front door we were just gonna have to break the rule.

I'll just tell you my favorite part of the entire day...you probably won't get as much of a kick out of it as I did, but I absolutely love to see these 'oh so modest' women with their heads and everything covered take off their shoes, hike up their skirts to their thighs and trudge through knee deep water. I don't really know why. I think it's some sort of subconscious 'you think that I'm immodest when I show my ankles but look at you now' type of thing. I wish that I'd had my camera. I would post a picture of these 4 ladies standing at the edge of this road in the pouring rain looking horrified at the thought of what they were about to do as if they weren't getting soaked while they were standing there pondering their options. Then one just did it, she just hiked up her skirt and jumped in and the others sort of unwillingly followed...it was really quite hilarious to witness.

I do have to clarify that this is way different from the last post. Those are refugees fleeing famine, war and 'disputable' genocide living in mud houses with no electricity and little food. These are uppity people in town where there are beamers and huge villas.