Getting home in the rain

Our first real rainstorm that we were out in happened tonight.  This truck was taking people home from Maputo.  This was taken in Matola, the bedroom community of Maputo.  Amazing.  We hoped they got home quickly.

We were wondering if there were ever thunder storms in Maputo.  Benildo, our interpreter, told us just yesterday that they do have thunderstorms.  Now we have experienced one.  This was amazing!  Almost like Missouri.  We are enjoying the sky lit up and the rumble of the thunder as the rain comes down.  The world is getting a good bath.

On the way back to our apartment, the vendors in the street were still out selling in the rain.  These are boys from 14-16 usually.  This one was probably 15.  He had a variety of small packages of  potato  chip assortments.  The cardboard box was cut off so all the chips were exposed to the view of the vehicles that passed on both sides of him.  It is dark and the rain is reflecting on our windshield and this young man is selling 1 package of chips as the traffic begins to move.  The vehicle that wants a package pulls off to the side of the road but we could not pass for fear we would hit the vendor.  We waited and watched.  The vendor took the money with one hand (the other one holding the big box of chips), put the money in one pocket and took change out of the other all the time balancing the box of chips.  He did that while traffic was passing him on one side and he was holding up traffic on the other.

We went out to dinner.  We found some interesting hot sauce. We have been missing Mexican food.  So when we found this hotsauce, we laughed.  I wonder if there is Mexican Food in Johanessburg, South Africa.  We haven't found it here.

hotsauce

Mexican?

 

Can you see?  "Seriously hot chille sauce made south of Mexico in Africa"

Isn't that cute?  The top did not have a lid on it.  They covered each of the four flavors of hot sauce with a piece of tin foil. 

The flavor was good, not hot but a good flavor.  There was a red sauce and a Habenero sauce that we did not eat.  The pizza and salad were good but different.  The pizza reminds me of the pizza I ate in Italy.  There is not much yeast dough in the pizza crust.

Avacado pizza

The avocados were cooked on top of the pizza.  There was chicken meat on the tomato sauce with cheese.  It was kind of sweet.  We ate it all.