Hailey's Bali Diary by Hailey McPherson

Author:Hailey McPherson [McPherson, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: JM Books
Published: 2014-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

DAY 5

RAINY DAY

It looked like it was going to rain the entire time we were in Bali. There were clouds almost all the time. Some of them definitely looked like trouble. There was also plenty of sun while we were there, but there was never a completely cloudless day. Some were more ominous than others. We were always surprised when it didn’t rain.

Then on our last full day on the island it rained. Not just a brief tropical rain here and there. It rained all day. We went to sleep the night before with a clear starry sky and woke up to steady rain.

This was one of those rare times when Liam and I woke up at the same time. I woke up because it was morning. He woke up because of the sound of the rain hitting the roof. It wasn’t heavy rain, but it was a sound we weren’t used to hearing in the villa.

“How is this going to affect our plans?” I asked no one in particular.

“What plans?” Liam asked, still half asleep.

We really didn’t have any plans.

“I was hoping we could leave the villa today and see a little more of the island,” I told him.

“We still can,” Liam said. “We can go wherever you want to go.”

He almost went back to sleep for a minute.

“We’ll just get a little wet doing it.”

He stopped talking for a while and I thought he was asleep.

“Just later,” he said. I didn’t know he was even partially awake. “Let’s go out later.”

While he slept, I got dressed, put on a Hong Kong raincoat and went outside. I didn’t even think about Liam’s rule about staying naked. I just got dressed automatically. It wasn’t villa day anymore anyway.

Hong Kong has these little plastic raincoats that are like thin yellow smocks. They’re very thin plastic and you can fold them up tight enough to fit in your pocket. They’re terrible as coats — they’ll never keep you warm — but you don’t need them to be warm in Hong Kong. It’s usually hot when it rains, so you don’t want to wear a big raincoat. You just want something to block the water. It’s like wearing a transparent yellow garbage bag that’s far too thin to hold garbage.

They’re good for travel because you can fold them up like a plastic grocery bag. I always bring one wherever I go because you never know when it’s going to rain in Asia. Even it if looks like it’s going to be a sunny day it might rain. We had an umbrella somewhere in our bags, but I didn’t feel like looking for it. I was going to take a shower soon anyway, so it really didn’t matter.

I stood out in the rain and watched the water splash in the pool. I had planned to go swimming in the morning, but the rain wasn’t letting me. The Hong Kong raincoat also wasn’t doing a very good job. Sometimes they work really well and sometimes you get home with wet clothes anyway.

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