Scenes from a rainy afternoon

Escape!

In a country where water is scarce and precious, it's hard to be mad when it rains. So I'm not quite mad, but annoyed. OK? Rainy days here suck. They just don't know how to handle it. It's like DC and snow. The city just freaks out.

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The cobblestone streets turn into slip n slides, there's tons of traffic, and umbrellas are useless as it comes down from all sides. And it gets just bone chilling cold. Not fun. The good news is that I work from home, but the bad news is Eitan gets a little loopy if we don't get out. And it's really hard to go out for a walk in the rain with a toddler. The rain cover needs to come onto the stroller, and Eitan hates it- he spends the whole time trying to pull it away. And holding a (useless) umbrella while pushing a stroller, well, I think that should be the latest Olympic sport, at least that way I'd have someone to emulate next go around.

There's been a lot of rain this winter. So much that it's national news. In fact, the Kinneret is up 81 centemeters from where it was this time last year. That's a big deal apparently, there's also news about it rising above a lower red line of some sort. Good stuff for Israel.

Here are some shots of our recent rainy afternoon, again courtesy of Paparazzi Ami.

Shabbat Shalom from a rainy (again!) Jerusalem!