Epic Last Night in Jeri!

Jen and my last night in Jeri coincided with Ginger Chris's birthday, so after teaching our final english class we headed to George's Finance's Mother's restaurant to join everyone in the birthday festivities. Al took Chris away to give Maeli a chance to collect money from everyone to surprise Chris with a birthday cake. However the surprise failed after Arrianne accidentally said "No I don't want any more food, I'll just eat cake!" while sitting right next to Chris. The cake was delicious anyways and was quickly consumed by everyone. Almost as soon as the cake was gone, it started to pour rain forcing everyone under the small overhang next to the restaurant. Everyone included: Jen, Myself, Chris, Maeli, Al, Arrianne, Jona, Tiloh and his girlfriend, Emmi, Will, Jamie, George, Tom, Julien, Jonathon, Tim, Simon, Leo and probably some other people I missed.

Soon after the rain lightened up a bit half the group went down to Planeta Jeri and the Barrackas and the other half (myself included) stayed near the restaurant for a bit. We watched the usual sandy and dry streets be washed down with water. We soon followed everyone down the street to have a last Caiprinhia, then it started to seriously pour. Tom danced with the Serbian girl in a stream of water while everyone cheered him on. It was raining so hard that there were flash floods raging down the narrow street and into the ocean. So of course we started jumping through the flooding street, getting soaked to the bone but having a great time all the same. There was thunder and lightening a ways away and we walked down to the ocean to check it out. (In retrospect, that probably was not the safest decision.)

When it was close to one in the morning we were wet and cold and in need of some food so we went to Jeripan, the 24 hour bakery. Only myself, Jen, Jonathan, Simon, Jamie and Chris were left. After having some semi delicious bake goods Jen, Jamie and I decided to hit up the late night bakery: the one that opens at 2 am. We got there about 5 minutes before two and all we saw was water seeping out from under the door. I was worried it wouldn't open but luckily it did and amazingly hot and yummy chocolate bread ensued.

It sure was an awesome Jeri night!