Typhoon Wipha

The first we had heard about the typhoon was at the preschool.  When we got there at 9 am it was chilly but not overly bad weather.  By 11 am when it was time to leave a light rain had started.  In the 10 minutes it took us to bicycle home the rain picked up gradually and by 1 pm it was a full on downpour!  It hasn't stopped raining since, nearly 9 hours later.  Marley and I went out puddle jumping today! He had on green rain pants, a green frog rain coat, and purple boots! I tried taking his picture but I couldn't get him to stand still long enough haha

Tuesdays Seth has class in downtown Tokyo and doesn't get home until around 8 pm so its just Kelly, Marley, and I for dinner.  Kelly and I sat on the living room floor listening to the downpour with Marley playing legos and discussed dinner.  We really didn't want to go out in the rain but cooking food really didn't sound appealing.  After looking at the rain for about 5 minutes we decided Indian food was worth it! haha So we braved the rain and wind to head to dinner.  Nothing like the before storm of a typhoon to go out for dinner.  We both really wished we could order a pizza or something instead haha

Dinner was great and even better than the last time but the walk home was almost miserable.  It was raining even harder at this point and was raining just sideways enough that you had to move your umbrella but not move it so much that the wind took it.  By the time we got home we were soaking wet from out thighs down and freezing.  We got Marley changed and asleep and Kelly and I settled in our spots for the night.  I started writing this post while listening to my headphones when I heard a loud ping noise.  I looked at Kelly and she looked back and then around the house.  Right after the ping noise came an extremely loud voice saying things in Japanese urgently.  Kelly and I jumped up and went to where the noise was coming from.  We thought it was the TV although it was unplugged.  It took us a few seconds to realize there was an intercom behind one of the binds near the ceiling.  Still not sure what it was saying but I'm sure nothing good about the typhoon haha

All classes for Tsuda, the college campus we live on, and Seth's other university in Tokyo have been cancelled and Seth said all the train stations have warnings that there will be no trains running tomorrow due to the typhoon.  Looks like another rainy inside kind of day!