Mother Nature....

Well.... I cut my nails today finally, so it has become a lot easier to type! He he he... What can I say, I go through phases where I want to grow them and look like a woman, and then one fine day wake up in the morning with an insane urge to rip them out! It's the same story with my hair... Sigh.. A regular tug-of-war with my baser female instincts and the superficial want to ape a man. Each has it's phase. You can't say i'm not fair!
Anyway... It rained last night. Torrential, tropical rain. Thunder, lightening, nearly gale force wind... The works! For a moment it looked as if mother nature was trying to assert her presence and the fact that we are inspite of all techonological advances still at her merciless hand. Maybe a warning against global warming, maybe just an outlet of her anger at the race that has destroyed her beauty and defiled the planet with toxic waste and concrete jungles. What ever it was, it was glorious. A blatant display of power and authority. For nearly two hours the city came to a stand still and became redundant.
I of coures was out at the time the storm hit the city. And ended up taking refuge under the tent of an andaa lari! It was an extremely amusing situation, exactly the kind of thing that happens to me. Caught in the middle of a lightening strom under a tent rigged up with the support of a tree!! Ha ha ha.... I noticed it after the rain slowed down a bit. Within minutes of rain the street was a tiny river and me and the friend i was stuck with were perched atop a stone placed against the wall by the road. We did not realise at the time we stood on it that we might have to wade through the river to get to the bike. Strange how these small things that matter so much go unnoticed! So here i was standing awestruck waiting to be struck! For nearly an hour and a half we stood there talking trying to ignore the fact that once it slows down, we will have to ride on a bike through muck, slush, splashes from other bikes, and rain. And believe me we did all that, including wading through ankle deep water wearing brand new ADIDAS shoes... Sigh.... Hopefully daddy is not reading this.
And when we eventually did get home we realised if only we'd waited it out at Barista we'd have been dry, warm and human by the time we got back. Not wet, cold, shivering and looking like something the cat dragged in backwards....