April 20, 2015

   Today I woke up feeling great! Especially since the day was bright and sunny.

Rushing downstairs, I grabbed a bite of breakfast and did my chores. After pulling open my curtains I realized that clouds had slowly gathered together. Slowly throughout the morning they had steadily formed together to make a mass of dark heavy clouds. Soon within minutes it had begun to rain. In a couple of minutes the whole deck was covered in a thick blanket water.

                                       

Sadly today was another rainy day. This past week it has rained every day. And today I was really looking forward to a day of sun. But after a couple of hours of getting used to it, I found that another rainy day would be welcomed. After lunch the younger kids went into their rooms and played while Travis, my friend James, and I played Settlers of Catan. This time we played, it was ten times as fun. This time we had two expansions. Expansions are extensions to the original game. In these expansions you can deploy your knights in different sections of your kingdom, defend your empire from pirate and barbarian war ships, build ships across uncharted waters, build cities and settlements on gold tiles, and build giant gold metropolises. In the end however, Travis was triumphant. After cleaning it up, I walked over to the nearest window and looked out. Amazed I realized that the clouds had cleared and a shining blue sky took there place.

But I couldn't go outside because the ground was wet and muddy. So I read and waited. And waited...... and waited....... Until the mud slowly dried. And soon after eating loaded baked potatoes, I was able to go outside and throw a softball and shoot some hoops.

So I will conclude this post by saying, "I very much dislike it when it rains in spurts."