Rainy Sunday...

One of the nicest (read only) green areas of Tirana is the park next to the lake. Walking along the paths there you almost forget you're in Albania. Nice paved paths, grass, trees, theres people jogging, some even in what could be called jogging outfits. People even walk there dogs.

(Although unfortunately a lot of Albanians have gravitated towards those stupid macho fighting breeds. Pitbulls, Dobermans, and the like. We saw some boys training one of there dogs on a tree and two dogs actually started fighting when the got off the leash. At least its better than all the stray dogs still roaming the streets

with broken legs and their hair falling out... But back to the story)

So a couple friends of mine invited me to plat Monopoly by the lake. We had to explain some of the rules to those who hadn't played before. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, we laid out the game and then the rain started. 10 minutes later we were sheltering in some sort of old communist monument covered in lame grafitti (Lame because the true art of grafitti hasn't made landfall in Albania quite yet. Mostly just kids scratching their names and weird, poorly translated pop culture references.) while the rain poured down all

around us. But as quickly as the rain came it was gone and we were back to our game with a few puddles and a rainbow the only indication that it had rained at all.