Today started off at 22C so after a leisurely breakfast we set out for Walmart about 10:30. slummed there a while and started to hear rumbling like thunder. Yep, it was, and then the rain started. Y'alls might know that down here there is no such thing as 'gentle' rain ... when it rains you can't see the house across the street, just like we couldn't see our car when we came out of Walmart. Of course we had left the windows down a bit for Max, so now all the car seats were drenched. Ewwwww ....!
Worse yet, the rain came in on a cold front and the temperature had suddenly plummeted to 17C. Ugh!
After a quick lunch I thought a rainy day might be a good time to go to the Houston Space Centre (NASA), only 9 miles from here. Max wasn't allowed in so he stayed behind to keep Joanne company at the trailer. Joanne volunteered to stay behind and be on clothes-dryer duty after our sitting in our drenched car seats.
The Space Centre was great, with lots of history, actual space capsules, actual moon rocks, space suits with real moon dust still on them, etc., but a large part of it was a kids' educational area with stations for experimenting with gravity, friction, propulsion, etc.
Upon coming out of the Centre it was, like, really bleedin' cold, the temperature having dropped to 12C !! Oh man!!! ... anybody feeling any pity for us yet?
So, as I sit here waiting for supper to magically appear, the temp has again plummeted, now to 8C. Shame to have to put on sox and long pants!
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