360 days and then this?

I think I mentioned before that Stephanie and I might be rain goddesses, well, it´s official, we are. After the last blog we walked back to our hotel room as the sky opened up and unleashed one of the nastier thunderstorms I´ve ever seen. I guess in the desert when there´s not much for the lightening to hit, it feels like you´re more of a target. Seriously, it was like the lightening was right outside our window, well actually it was. We were staying in one of those little pueblos and I´m pretty sure it´s not used to rain bec. all of a sudden I looked at the window and water was streaming down and actually taking part of the wall with it creating this little sand heap at the bottom. Steph and I kind of looked at each other like, uh, is this room going to stand up? eek..
Well it turns out that not only can the rooms not withstand the rain, neither can the town. Maybe bec. until we got there they had gone 360 days without rain. I mean what are the chances that we´d be there the day that streak breaks?? Well when it rains, it pours, literally, in the ATacma desert. San Pedro was one big mud puddle. We have some lovely pictures as proof. Internet went down in our hotel and never came back up and most of the town lost power, which is another story I´ll tell in a second.
So San Pedro de Atacama, we are glad we could be your rain godesses for the year.