Ok- so I´m cheating a little bit. I took this foto in Playa del Carmen: it just seemed like a good one to use when talking about weather. After spending months enduring first extreme heat and humidity, then living through a tropical "rainy season", I wasn´t sure what to expect from December. Well, I mean NOT SNOW, but beyond that I had no idea. Turns out, December here is heaven.
Actually starting almost two weeks ago, the temperature has stayed between 70-80 degrees every day. We have WIND, which is sort of unprecedented, and sometimes there are clouds in the sky to block the sun. If my friends from Wisconsin can imagine that "Indian Summer" feel we get if we´re lucky for a few days in September, that´s what it´s like.
You may be asking: since when does 80 degrees feels cool and refreshing? Come visit sometime in August.
Anyway, while I´m really enjoying it, this is giving that "There is no Christmas" part of my brain more to work with. It´s weird, because I can see the decorations and know on a thinking level that it´s December, but at the same time it´s a lot easier to imagine everything from back home is frozen and nothing important is going to happen without me. Is exchange giving me a narcisistic complex? Time will tell.
For now: Happy December 4th! (And enjoy your freezing temperatures and bare-trees)
Elaine, that is what Hawaii feels like ALL the time. Tropical. Enjoy every minute, because who knows what the next season will bring! BTW - today we had flurries, grey skies, and a clammy 30 degrees.
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