Rainy adventures
Aug. 27th, 2006 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisToday Maja and I went to visit my friend Caroline. She lives on Hisingen, an island that makes up part of Göteborg and which is connected to the mainland by two bridges and one car tunnel. We had a good time and didn't think much of the fact that it started raining heavily quite soon after we arrived. It poured down and the streets soon turned into rivers. We thought it would end eventually, but it didn't and after a while we had to go home anyway. Maja, who hadn't had her midday nap was determined to "walk self" so we walked extremely slowly through the heavy rain, through the pools of water which reached over her ankles and through the wild little rivers gushing from the drain pipes. It wasn't very cold so it was pretty all right. But we got soaked through. When we reached the tram stop there were already three trams standing there, not moving. Closer to the bridge there's a little hollow and that had now turned into a lake that the trams couldn't pass. But there are also buses that go from that stop, but you have cross a large road with lots of traffic to get there. So I forced Maja into her pram and crossed the street. We just missed a bus, but the next was due in 8 minutes. Thankfully Maja fell asleep in her pram while we were waiting.
When the bus came everybody who were on the waiting trams wanted to get on it, but we were there early and also went in through the back doors of course.
Then, when the bus finally got on the way and we had passed one stop and seen the "lake" and were just going to cross the river there was a bridge opening! Now I was very happy Maja was asleep, she doesn't like sitting in her pram in buses and there were too many people in the bus to take her out. The bus only went to the central station so I had to get off and try to catch a bus home. The best one had just gone, so it was 30 minutes to next. But there's another bus that stops maybe 400 metres from our house that was due in three minutes. While on that bus Maja woke up and was happy and content. That bus stops close to the supermarket where Rickard works so I stopped by to get a kiss.
Then we walked home, through the heavy rain and by then I was beginning to feel cold and rather tired of rain.
Now almost everything is hung to dry and we have taken a bath. I need to make some "tea" from fresh ginger because I feel the beginning of a cold in my throat and nose.
When the bus came everybody who were on the waiting trams wanted to get on it, but we were there early and also went in through the back doors of course.
Then, when the bus finally got on the way and we had passed one stop and seen the "lake" and were just going to cross the river there was a bridge opening! Now I was very happy Maja was asleep, she doesn't like sitting in her pram in buses and there were too many people in the bus to take her out. The bus only went to the central station so I had to get off and try to catch a bus home. The best one had just gone, so it was 30 minutes to next. But there's another bus that stops maybe 400 metres from our house that was due in three minutes. While on that bus Maja woke up and was happy and content. That bus stops close to the supermarket where Rickard works so I stopped by to get a kiss.
Then we walked home, through the heavy rain and by then I was beginning to feel cold and rather tired of rain.
Now almost everything is hung to dry and we have taken a bath. I need to make some "tea" from fresh ginger because I feel the beginning of a cold in my throat and nose.
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Date: 2006-08-27 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 05:36 pm (UTC)And once you've got soaked through you can't get any wetter.
Eva
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Date: 2006-08-27 05:47 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about being wet through, though; I'm in the Army, and had to go on a battalion run last year. It was nice enough when we left, but about halfway through the skies opened up with the biggest, fattest raindrops I'd ever seen. By the time I got back to the parking lot I don't think I could have been any wetter if I had jumped in a pool. I had to dry my hair with a towel I had in my truck just so I could see to drive back to the barracks, because my hair holds so much water it was running into my eyes. It was amazing how quickly it went from annoying to hilariously ridiculous.
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Date: 2006-08-27 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-28 08:42 am (UTC)I hate rain, mainly beacause I so easily get cold and being damp or wet really chills me.
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Date: 2006-08-28 08:43 am (UTC)