Saturday, August 20, 2011

DAY 25 (Sunday 14 August 2011)

Ah, today started off with our normal Sunday walk out, we didn’t really have a place in mind to go to so we just decided to walk the route that I have taken a couple of times on the bike when I have gone out with the runners.  We set of on what was a fairly sunny day, we went up University Drive stopped and looked at some cows in a field lazing around then headed off again.

We walked down some steps, instead of following the road route and at the bottom of the steps we turned left so that we could cross a bridge, however, part way across the bridge we stopped because the sight of all these hawks were lovely to watch, there had to be a least 3 pairs of hawks just circling around, catching the thermals then gliding down to the water before flying back up to catch the thermals and do it all again.  It was such a lovely sight to see that we must have stayed there for a good 15 minutes just watching them.

One of the hawks in the thermals

We set off again and as we were getting further round on the route you could see that the clouds over the hills in the not so far distance were starting to get darker by the minute, we just knew that the rain was going to come and we weren’t sure if we would make it back home before the heavens opened, well we were right, we didn’t make it back before the heavens opened.  The rain decided to descend on us in big fat drops, everyone was either running for cover or putting up their umbrellas to get some sort of respite from the rain, even the street dogs were huddling in doorways of shops to try and get away from it too.  Well by the time we got home we so wet that we had to take off our shoes and socks (we even rung the socks out) before entering the block where we lived.

It looked like the rain was to stay for the rest of the day, so we decided to stay in for a couple of hours to see if it would ease off and it did, so we were able to go out to a place called ‘Roadhouse’ for our Sunday meal, we even had ice cream at a place called ‘Os’.

Well that was the only thing for us today.

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