Walking home from work today felt so good. The hot sun in my face, the blue sky, the gentle breeze. Summer time is definitely here now. In Panama, while we are just barely in the northern hemisphere, Summer is January to March, the non rainy season. Our rainy season (or winter) is so long and so wet that it really chears you up now when the sun is out, the same way that first sunny day in Spring time up north does.

On another similar note. While everyone up North is busy hoping for a white christmas, here people do the same about a dry christmas. The meterologists claim it will be sunny, or at least that it wont rain. Here is hoping.