February 10, 2011

Today just kinda went by. It poured again, but the clouds were different today than any other day, they were extremely high up in the sky. I could also tell that the cloud layer was thin because it was a blue grey, the exact same color as the ocean. So again no sunrise, but right above the horizon where the monochromatic clouds and ocean met there was a bright orange line from one end of the bay to the other, at first I thought it was something in the water but it wasn't and theat's when I realized that was the best sunrise I would be getting that morning. The line stayed there for over an hour while I saw the sun's bright yellow light bursting in one spot through the clouds, as the sun continually made it's way into the sky way up above, that orange line was still there, it was a perplexing phenomena. At about 2pm almost all of the clouds disappeared, well there werent any over the ocean anymore, and the blue sky just grew. Tonight Ellie's family and I are having a goodbye dinner for the Japanese foreign exchange student, Mina. Tonight was the only night that her host mom, Leslie, Ellie's aunt, had off of work. I am excited and saddened that Mina is going back home to Japan, she has been away from home for nearly a year now.