Rain and our New House

A few months ago we moved into a different house here in Torreon. It is in a small, gated community. In some ways, living here feels very different than any other place we have lived in Mexico. The streets are often quiet and we only hear occasional parties at night (unlike the apartment our vicars have stayed at recently, where loud music often vibrates the walls until 2 or 3 a.m. on the weekends).

In many ways, though, it is still Mexico. It rained yesterday afternoon for almost an hour. During the storm, we lost power. It came back on about 5 hours later. (We also were out of power last weekend for awhile, but I don't think there was any real reason why. It just happens sometimes).

Even though we were a bit bummed about no power, we were very excited about the rain. Since we live in the desert, rain is a rarity. And yesterday we had an all-out thunderstorm! We opened the front door (pictured above) and watched it for awhile. Trinity looked into the driveway and saw all the water coming down. Then she asked if the van was taking a bath :).