Se Não Chover

Storm clouds are rolling in, the amazonian rainy season has arrived!

"Se não chover" is a saying here that means "if it doesn't rain". The people here are so flexible always cancelling activities when it rains. And it rains a lot in the Rain Forest. 

The rain is so hard that if you
went out in it you would be
soaked through within 30 seconds. 

The flowers that come off of
the trees during the rain
are very pretty.

The rain knocked down one
of our banana leafs.

We've seen lot's of people offering shelter for people out in the rain including the workers at a restaurant we were eating lunch at who offered for us to stay until it let up. We decided to leave anyways because our house was only like two blocks away.

It was fun walking home in the rain, but very, very wet.

Sometimes, even when it rains so hard that the road turns into a river, or a rio rua, people just have to go out, and they take it well.

Some guys splashing through a rio rua hiding from the rain in the back of their truck.

It was raining one Sunday before church,
so our branch president asked us to
help him pick up people with our van so that
they could make it to church that day.

When it rains and you can't do much, the people taught us to make the most of it. Adira made a paper boat and wrapped it in a banana leaf so that it would float. If the banana leaf hadn't ripped and the boat sunk, it would have continued down our street and into the amazon river.

Here the girls are using flip-flops as boats.

The other reason why we really like the rain is because it makes it so much less hot here.

If the rain keeps up, maybe dad won't have to use
this method of cooling down with the fan anymore.

WE LOVE THE RAIN