We’ve been out enjoying the final days of summer while we’ve still got sun. Â For those who don’t know, Lima loses it’s sunshine for roughly 7 months a year thanks to the Humboldt Current, a jet stream that pushes the clouds eastward. Â Those clouds run smack into the Andes and just like that we’ve got perma-cloud-cover. Â And one other bizarre thing – Lima is a desert, so it never actually rains hard enough here that you’d use an umbrella. Â However, during the winter months we get this cold mist called garua nearly every day. Â Granted, it doesn’t get below 50 degrees F, but you’d be surprised what constant rain and no sun can do to one’s mood.
So back to where I started – we’ve been sucking up all the sun we can because it’s going to disappear very, very soon. Â Today we went out for a romp in the park – here’s a short video of Nick and Nia enjoying each other:
Nick’s other passion as of late has been rock climbing. Â We have a climbing wall near our house and he tries to get there 2-3 times a week.
It’s been great strength training for him, as well as a wonderful stress release after a long day of work.
Nick has a dream that Nia will join him on the wall within 6 to 12 months. Â Crazy perhaps, but I think it’d be a great way to help her channel her abundance of energy (and stop climbing all our furniture). Â We are going to start bringing her to the climbing wall to play around so that within a couple months she’ll be comfortable trying to climb on her own.
As you can tell by the picture, Nia took to it immediately and Daddy couldn’t have been happier!
