Oh, how I love weather!

Houston has been especially dry and hot this summer. We a nice big thunderstorm everyday at 4pm, just like Oprah. But, for the past four weeks that didn't happen, resulting in dry, heat that makes evenings outside feel like sitting in a convection oven. The heat has broken records, but the humidity has been low. You sweat profusely, but it doesn't soak your shirt.

At swim camp, we a make-up day once a week, anticipating that the weather will rain (or thunder) out lessons. So far we have had to use all of our Friday makeup days, which sucks because I was planning on using those Friday afternoons to go to Austin and worship at the temple of Barton Springs. Hmm, wait, didn't I just say it hadn't rained? That's right. We have had to close the pool four times in two weeks because a child vomited, requiring the pool to be shocked with a high dose of chlorine. To those of you who think I should be forced to teach lessons in vomit and bleach, sorry, I guess the owners don't want to subject there clients/students to that. And, no, it wasn't even the same child. A summer flu is going around? The fourth time this happened, Ms. Anna cleaned up the vomit she found in the deep end and asked the class who had thrown up. The one child who had been decked from free swim raised his hand. They told him that he couldn't have thrown up in the pool because he wasn't in the pool. Besides learning to call all adults by Ms. and their first name, its hard to say what Montessori school is doing for these children.

So back to the weather already. Last week, the rain finally came. Even my parents, who had been saying that it had been raining for two years solid and we didn't need anymore rain, were welcoming. We had two huge thunderstorms that were pretty awesome. Swim lessons got cancelled and someone gave me a ride home so I didn't have to ride in the rain. When we got to my house she decided that she didn't want to drive home in the thunderstorm so she came in for an hour. We dried off and had a nice little talk. So instead of working all afternoon I made a new friend. How I love Texas weather!