Thursday March 20th

Rainy season has officially, officially started. For the past 3 days, it has been sunshine one minute and absolute downpour the next. It makes for some very squishy walking.

One night this week (I am not sure what day it was, my days are all getting smushed together somehow) I was awakened by this cracking noise and then an explosion coming from (thankfully) outside my room. My initial thought was "Ah! (I sat up in bed and actually screamed)The gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen!!" First of all, I cannot see the kitchen from my room, so if this was true, the explosion must have knocked out a wall and blown clear into the hallway. I ripped open my mosquito net and raced out of my room only to find that a candle had exploded in its glass votive container. The counter in our bathroom is made plainly of wood, which makes for kind of a scary experience, but no real harm was done. The details for the candle explosion are as follows:
-Ann first saw a strange light coming from the bathroom, so she decided to investigate.
-She thought maybe I was using the bathroom, but the door was open, so clearly that didn't make sense, unless I had become very immodest in the last few days.
-Ann saw that the votive container had exploded, creating a little campfire on our bathroom counter.
-She poured water to extinguish the fire, only to anger the flames, causing an explosion of some sort (Any chemists, or pyromaniacs who would like to explain why the candle did what it did, are welcome to explain)
-The explosion, then aroused me from my much needed beauty sleep.

Why do all these exciting things have to happen in the bathroom...remember the bat?

Tomorrow morning, we make our way to Jinja. We haven't made any concrete plans while in Jinja, so I don't have any details to share with you. All I know it that we will be buying lots and lots of coffee. Oh, caffeine, you make the world go round.