The Monsoons...

Today has been a very rainy day. We first noticed the rain today when the sound woke us up at about 6:30 am. The top layer of our roof is metal, so it gets quite loud (both with rain and monkeys). In spite of the continuing rain, we decided to make a trip to te bazaar today. We usually like to get there fairly early on Saturday so that we can beat the crowds and be back here for lunch. We decided to focus on getting some dishes and some curtains in the bazaar today. Woodstock provides most of these basic things, with the expectation that you'll return them after two months. Overall it was a successful trip--even if we were soaked to the skin by the time we got home. It has been raining for about 8 hours now with only a about a half hour respite. When we returned from shopping, Dave took a quick video of the rains from our front porch. If you can imagine, this was a bit of a lull in the force of the rain. Dave was definitely glad that he picked up a larger, more appropriately sized umbrella in the bazaar today. So the moral of today's rain is that when you're planning your trip out to visit us in India, try to make it after mid-September. Everyone keeps telling us that it is going to get better, but we're not sure we believe them yet...


Dave and Beth