The Shortest Walk Ever

Tonight, I found out what my family would do in a sudden downpour.

The night started off simply, innocently enough. We were going to go for a walk for Family Home Evening. We got all the children ready, and as we were starting to walk, there was even a rainbow. We all stopped to admire it. Look, it's right here!

look at this rainbow. love it. sing a song about it.

Anyway, after admiring and taking pictures of the rainbow, we started on our walk. We didn't even get out of our neighborhood before little droplets of water started falling from the sky. As this happens often here in Hawaii, we continued our walk undeterred, sure that it would just be a few drops, and the sky would clear for the rest of our walk. 

After getting out of our neighborhood, the droplets of water turned savage, and started attacking us. After a few seconds, we were soaked. David started using his little brother, Peter, as a rain shield. (One would note that Peter does not make a good shield.) We all turned tail and began running back home, taking off our shoes to get better traction on the wet grass. (Ok, this is Hawaii. It doesn't take much to get us to take off footwear.) 

After getting home, Jared remarked that Family Home Evening couldn't be over so fast. I told him that we had learned a lot about our family during this walk. We learned what we would do in the case of an emergency rainstorm. Throw each other to the wind, each man for himself, and use each other as human shields against the rain. We love each other so much. It was an awesome walk. 

And, of course, eating sherbet afterwards was lovely too.