Just when I thought there was nothing to blog about...

Things have been kinda quiet lately and I was beginning to wonder what I would blog about...then the hail storm came. Grady and I were walking home yesterday evening when all of a sudden (really, all of a sudden) it started raining heavily. The winds picked up and then it started to hail BIG pieces of ice. I have never seen a hail storm like this before. Had I been inside watching it from the comfort of my home, I would have enjoyed it. However, Grady and I were about a mile from our apartment. With no shelter to take cover, we got soaked. We were so wet, our clothes were barely hanging on. We started running but since we had just eaten, Grady said he couldn't run or his stomach would ache. Moments later the hail came down in bigger pieces and with greater frequency and we were running whether we wanted to or not. Hail covered the streets. Tree branches were snapping and crashing to the ground. I got pegged in the face, head and arm with hail. We were able to briefly take cover under an awning but then the wind changed direction and we were getting hit by rain and hail again. We ran the rest of the way home. Once inside, we realized we had left the windows open (there's no such thing as air condition here) and water had poured inside. With the electricity being out from the storm, we fumbled around in the dark for clean clothes to wear and towels to clean up all the water. What a weekend to remember!