No pictures to go with this post. . . so I will tell you the story, and you can imagine it in your mind

Supposedly March, April and May-ish is the rainy season in our new city.  They say everything stays wet, clothes hang out to dry for. . . ever, moisture and mold can become a problem if you don’t stay on top of it.  We have been here 1 week now, but it hasn’t rained though!  The weather has been great actually! Everything has stayed dry too.  I thought to myself, “If this is the rainy season, I can handle this!” We actually joked about it tonight as we ate dinner with some new friends.

After we finished our dinner we walked out to discover a HUGE downpour!!! I mean, flood the streets rain. It was insane!! We stood there with our family of 5 and their family of 3 trying to figure out what to do.  The bus stop was too far, there were no taxis that would come that way, no umbrella.  We had the phone numbers of 5 different drivers, but none of them were willing to come.

David and the other guy decided to face the torrential rains and walk to the main road, flag a taxi and come rescue us.  They did! All 8 of us crammed into a taxi and the driver brought us back to our hotel (that we have lived in for the past week while our house was getting painted and previous mold/moisture issues were addressed), then he was going to drive them home to their apartment.  HOWEVER, the street to our hotel was on was flooded. . . with sewer water that had backed up and was about 2 feet deep!  It was the craziest thing. And probably one of the stinkiest things. . . he couldn’t get us out of the water to the hotel door because someone had left their car parked out in the entrance.  After about 10 minutes, someone got into that car and moved it (who wasn’t the driver) and we were able to get out. Across the road was David’s scooter that he bought YESTERDAY.  It’s under water, which means the batteries are more than likely ruined.  Bummer.

Rainy season is not to be joked about again