OMG it rained this morning! We got a little damp on our ride to school. After six weeks of no rain I'd almost forgotten what it felt like! The odd thing about the lack of rain is that you'd never know it by looking at the vegetation. Everything is as lush and green as it was during the rainy season.

The rain reminded me of a sign outside our apartment building:

Auxiliary sprinkles, just in case you run out when you serve up some ice cream. In New England we like to call them jimmies but either way, an ice cream sundae just isn't the same without some. (It's actually the box for the emergency fire hose but I like to think it's full of rainbow sprinkles.)

Another sight this morning in our apartment building garage:

A bicycle built for three! The littlest kid sits in the basket on the front and the bigger kid sits on back. Usually you see whole families on scooters, but not so often on a bike.