Relampagos! (go look it up)

My blog just got a makeover!... The result of an extremely bored exchange student. hehe. :)

While I'm posting, I might as well put up a few pictures I took the other night.

Wednesday night around 9 pm I was in Rada Tilly staying at a friends house. At this hour, we could hear thunder starting and lightening hitting the sky. Excited we ran out to the beach (she lives pretty much on the beach) and looked around. It was amazing! The sky had turned a bright pinkish color in some places and there were crazy shaped clouds everywhere. Looking out over the water there was fog starting to roll over toward the land. Eventually, the fog reached us and we were enveloped. But you could still see the tops of the hills peaking out over the low clouds.

The thunder didn't stop, and every 10 seconds everything was lit up by lightening bolts. Seeing as we were standing on the beach in almost the middle of a thunder storm, I thought it a goodidea to go back inside. But it was too beautiful and magical... and there were other people still there too. So we stayed taking pictures and marveling at what was happening around us.

Soon enough, I could feel the electricity in the air. The little hairs around my forehead were literally almost standing on end. That's when I decided I wanted to go inside.

It wasn't until it actually started raining and the lightening was about on top us that I convinced my very stubborn friend from San Francisco to head towards the house.

Once we got there we pulled two chairs to the big windows, lit a candle (electricity was out) and watched the rain pour down for at least and hour and a half. The electricity didn't come back on until the morning. It was truly a good night.

The next morning, we found out some bad news though. In Comodoro, 3 people drowned it rained so much. Apparently they shut down the roads and everything was insanely flooded! When I got home my host sister even told me that our kitchen had flooded and they had cleaned it up earlier that day. But I can still see where the water came through the roof.

It. Was. Crazy.

Now I only have one question: If it rains this much, how come there's no damn plants here?!

A few pictures:

This last picture is what I like to call "All you need on a dark stormy night". Peanut Butter. Some of the only good tasting beer from Argentina. A candle. And homemade peanut butter cookies... that were made in the dark I might add. :)