Odd-isms

I had a bit of a funny day.  I woke up in a puddle of sweat, because the power went off last night and it was super humid for the whole day.  Not such a great start to the day.  I was also sort of half awake relatively early because I thought I was going to have to go to the airport to fetch R and some visitors.  They had gotten up at 3am, because they were told to check in at the airport at 3:30am!  Plane was supposed to take off at 6:30am, meaning they'd be here by 8-ish.  But, of course, the way things go around here... they finally arrived here at 4:45pm!  Imagine.  They sat in the airport up in that city for 11 hours, waiting to get on a plane, after having very little sleep. And all day, no one told them anything about when the plane would leave, or when the boarding would be.  They finally checked everyone in for the flight at around 9:30am, but still didn't tell them when the flight would leave.  I would have been so grumpy, but they arrived with smiles on their faces, and were all perky enough to go out for dinner!  So I admire their fortitude, that's for sure.

A very odd thing about my trip to the airport this afternoon was that while we were waiting for the plane to arrive, it started pouring down rain.  I mean, it rained and rained and drenched absolutely everything in sight.  It was a ton of rain.  When the time came for us to get our visitors and all their luggage into the car, we bundled the visitors into the Landcruiser, but I got completely soaked through while trying to help load up the luggage.  Absolutely soaked, through to my undies! 

And when we got back to our compound (a whole 3.5 kilometers away!), there wasn't a drop of rain that had fallen!  Not a single drop.  So I went from being soaked through to the skin to having to water my garden!

Today starts the beginning of the Easter Weekend.  May you have a wonderful time celebrating the resurrection of our Saviour!