AWEsome!

My first day of holiday was completely amazing, start to finish.

We were woken up by thunder and lightening at 6 in the morning, very unusual for this area. Of course we got up to see it and found that it was happening right in the middle of the most incredible crimson sunrise! There was light and action all over, a rainbow hanging over the sea as the sun came through, sudden hard downpours, rolling thunder - incredible!

Well, we could hardly go back to bed after that, so had a leisurely breakfast and headed out for the day after feeding the 11 birds, 5 dogs and a fish. We got to watch Brother Bear at the movies, picked up a few great books on sale, had drinks and lunch at 2 different places, then found one of my all-time fave movies really cheap - "Twister" (don't laugh... I would love to chase tornado's for a living! :) ). Quite appropriate to the day, which was still going crazy weather-wise. Also picked up "A Perfect Storm" dirt-cheap, and we watched both of them as the storm outside waned and waxed.

By the time evening came there were still bolts of lighting over the sea as the sun set in brilliant golds against bubbly clouds, and we went to bed with a red moon and orange glow on the clouds from a nearby lightening-initiated fire on the mountains.

What a way to start our holiday! It was incredible stuff and my son and I loved it.

Today has been less incredible, but good to be on holiday nevertheless. I have just posted off the final documents to the visa folk, and now it's in God's hands.... If they don't accept what's in the envelope, it's tickets for the visa.

Shabbat Shalom to all!