Monsoon Shuking

So, I went to the shuk (market) here in Jerusalem last week after work. I stopped off to pick up some fresh vegetables, pita, hummus, some rugelach, cheeses, and spices. Well, about five minutes after I got there, the skies opened up a la Hurricane Frances. It poured for about two hours straight...I'm a South Florida boy, I'm used to the rain, but I'm also used to it letting up every 45 minutes or so. This was a heck of a downpour.

So, I went to Azura (a Middle Eastern restaurant in the old Iraqi part of the market; Ehud Banai once wrote a song about it) and had some kube soup to warm up. Then I ran over to Aroma (for anyone who knows the shuk, it's sacrilige that there is a modern coffee shop like Aroma there, but - when you can't beat em...have a hafuch).

So, even though the rain caused massive traffic congestion, minor flooding, I found the proverbial silver lining.