Heavy Rain

During Yoga this morning, I noticed that it was raining pretty hard. I’ve been wanting to take a walk in the rain for a while but each time I think about it, the rain seems to stop soon after. This time, I noticed it was goin’ down hard and Ma was gonna go take a walk so I decided to come along (after doing some yoga). Besides, I needed to fully test out the poncho.

It was really coming down when we left and I was nice and dry. Since I didn’t have any rainpants on, my bottom edges of my shorts were getting pretty wet. About a quarter way there, my feet were freezing. Not just that, it started to hail! A few were pea sized. So, it feels much worse walking on rough ground when your feet are cold/numb than when your feet are at normal temp. After a while, when my feet had enough, I burrowed down in the poncho and warmed my feet with my hands (my hands were in my pockets so they were pretty warm) which warmed ‘em up pretty good. That felt much better.

As we walked, we saw that the whole soccer field was flooded. It’s made of astroturf so it’s understandable. Later on, we saw the street was flooded and the water went up to the sidewalk. The reason was the water came down from the hill which added more water.

We kept walking along the coast. After a while, it stopped raining so we turned back.

When, we got home, I carefully warmed up. The past times we’ve came back from walking in the cold, we dunked our feet in warm water. That always didn’t feel good. It made our feet really itch and didn’t help much. Plus, when we dunked our hands in, it felt like the skin under our fingernails expanded which didn’t feel too good either. So this time, I warmed my feet by the heater which was so much better. My legs were pretty itchy but I think that was because they were rubbing against the wet fabric of my pants.

I made a piping hot cup of cocoa after.