Isn’t it Ironic.

Its flooding outside now. That’s right, flooding. Torrential Rains... hasn’t stopped all day, and this just HAS TO HAPPEN ON MY ONE DAY OFF. Grrr. They say that today is the most rain we’ve had here in 15 years. Yea, well that’s just great. The one day I can go into town and do stuff, my one day to be outside and I’m stuck watching the rain. And in Bahrain they don’t have drains on the roads, cuz usually it rains about 4 cm a year. So, today the roads are like rivers, the desert is overflowing and not one person in this country owns an umbrella.

And you know what else is strange… usually the rain has this nice musty smell of the wet dirt, and when it stops you get a fresh scent in the air. Well since here there is no dirt, everything smells like fish. The whole area where the hotel and our accommodation and pretty much half of the new Bahrain is build on is reclaimed land. In fact, if I look down while I’m walking to work in the mornings I can see little sea shells scattered everywhere on the ground. So, when this stuff gets wet it smells like the sea, and the whole area ends up having a salty beach smell.