Hot:

synonyms: ardent, baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white. antonyms: cool, mild. (my favorites are in bold :) )

Other synonyms I've recently discovered: Manama, Bahrain, Middle-East. One of the baby's favorite songs by Tom Chapin is called "Cameling." The lyrics say: "The days are hot, the nights are not." Apparently he has never ACTUALLY been to a desert... At least not the one I'm in. Yesterday and again today we get to venture out into the world during the daytime in order to get our visas extended. Until yesterday, we hadn't really seen much of the daytime here because we've stayed on our normal Central Time Zone schedule. That means we get up at 3 in the afternoon local time. Because we get up around 3, we don't leave the house until 4:30 or 5ish on our little trips. Because the sun sets around 6 or 6:30 we are leaving at dusk. I like that. Hopefully all of the paperwork will be in order today. Then I won't have to wake the baby up in the middle of his "night" again in order to tramp around during the hot part of the day (and I suspect we still haven't seen that yet).

Oh, and while the nights aren't as hot as the daytime.. The lowest low has been 88F, or around 31C. And for those of you who want to say "But it's a dry heat..." Think twice.. This island is 273 square miles. Let's put that into perspective... Rhode Island, the SMALLEST state in the US is 1,044 square miles. A landmass this small in this amount of heat is most certainly not lucky enough to get the "dry heat" you'd expect. The air is humid. The other night it was 88 and it wasn't humid. My husband nearly froze to death and I wanted to stay outside and "play" because it was beautiful.

Don't get me wrong. We're having a great time here. Daddy and the baby are getting along spledndidly (read below). I am loving being here so far. I just didn't quite comprehend the definition of hot until I got here. A friend when trying to explain it to me said "realize that it is HOT in the summer...I mean 135 degrees hot! Think of opening the oven door...then stepping in!" She was wrong. It is cooler in the oven.

*hot. (n.d.). Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1). Retrieved July 09, 2007, from Thesaurus.com website: http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hot