May 1, 2008

"The Rain in Spain"

I don't know if it's a sign of Spring or May has brought rain upon the land but it was nice to look out the window and see green grass and the moist. We were watching "Gilmore Girls" and all of a sudden I heard a weird sound from outside. It almost sounded like a rain storm. I quickly opened the door and looked out to find a huge pile of water right on our front lawn and water was shooting everywhere from the sprinkler system. I guess one of the sprinkler connection pipes was broken so instead of water flowing how it's suppose to be it shot water straight up in the air. Even our neigbor was outside watching the disturbing noise. As I watched the water shooting up and falls right back down it reminded me of Tonga and the "rain bath." In Tonga, whenever it would rain, everyone would walk around in the rain with a bar of soap to find where there is most water to take a bath (of course with full on clothes). You would walk around until you feel that you are clean then you are done showering and you would come home and change into your clean dry clothes. It was one of the best time growing up. We would run around in the rain and slide around the grass... gosh, I don't even remember when was the last time I took a rain bath. I was a bit tempted to go out though...

Anyways, I took this shot ... doesn't it look like rain???

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