The Rainy Season Begins

So tonight was interesting.  It was a bright beautiful sunny day. It gets dark aroud 6-7 PM here.  We were on a tour of the city in a bus.  It started to get dark. Thenit started to get cloudy.  It hovered over us a few minutes and then began a torrential downpour.  It is nothing like you've seen in the US. What resembled the Amazon River flowed down each street, and if you stepped outside for a second you were immediately drenched.  The tour guide understood that this was our first entire day here, so he was nice and took everyone to their homes.  It took forever though, cause they barely knew where they were going.  It doesn't really help that nothing is marked and street signs are few, far between, and probably broken or graffitied. It came down to me, my roommate, and this one other girl who lived somewhere else.  One of the tour guides told me and my roommate to get off the bus and he would take us home, while the bus would go on to take the other girl home.  We ran through the rain, which by that point was slowing down a little, and got into his car.  He drove us back, dropped us off at the door, and advised us to bring a poncho and rain boots from now on, because every night would most likely be just like this. Bring on the rain.