The First Cloudy Day

Now that I have found a way to get to my blog, my posts will be more organized and the pictures will be incorporated into the text more. Also, I will posting more pictures on Picasa Web Albums. That is if I can figure out how to take a large number of pictures and shrink them all at once. If I post them as they are now I will run out of storage space pretty quickly. And I don't want to spend the time to shrink each picture individually. However, if it is rainy and cold tomorrow that may be what I end up doing as I will need something to do.

Today was the first cloudy day. It was a little depressing. I didn't know what to do with myself. Not only is it cloudy it is also cool. In the 50's and tonight there is a chance it will get below freezing. Brr.. particularly when you don't have heat. It is warm here most of the year so the apartment we are living in doesn't have heat. The hostel and hotel did not have heat either. That means when it is cold here you are cold, too.

I was going to go to the market and get some veggies but it started raining right when I was leaving. I put on my rain jacket and headed out but it was really cold so I just walked around in our complex. I think that some of the trees growing in the complex may be olive trees. I'm not really sure. The birds like them, though. I like walking around and looking at peoples' balconies, as many of them have really amazing plants. Some of the ground floor residents have their plants outside and I can look at all the different flowers. There are many orchids, some of which are about waist high. I wish we could grow orchids like these back in NC as they are really beautiful. I haven't been to the flower market yet, but I really would like to go. I think it would be hard to go as I would want all of the flowers. Just walking around looking at people's potted plants makes me want to live somewhere where I could have flowers like these. Yunnan Provence is not the place, though, as I'm not too fond of the cuisine here.

Since I didn't go out and get stuff from the market Matthew and I made do with what we had here for dinner. I cooked a stir fry from the veggies we had: carrots, red pepper, green onion, and nappy cabbage, with tuna. It turned out pretty good. And if it wasn't good I was too hungry to care. It is getting colder here every minute and as my nose gets colder and colder I'm wondering if I would be better served showering tonight or in the morning? I'm thinking that if I don't brave the cold now I might not shower until it gets warm again, as I don't like wet hair when it is cold. Okay, so there is hot water. Like really hot water, that will burn you if you have it on all the way. So I really should stop contemplating and start doing.