Sunrise

One thing that has surprised us here is sunrise...not that there is one, but how early it is.  By 5:00 in the morning the sun is fully up.  By the time we leave for work, between 7:15 and 7:45, the sun is high enough and hot enough that we need to wear sunblock for the walk in.  We walk east to the CBD and have to deal with the bright sun in our faces and the glint of the sunlight off the river...it is positively blinding!  We expected this in January and February, but it has been this way since we got here. 
Like anywhere else that is near a large body of water, they often get rain on really hot days.  So far we have been lucky and yesterday we just missed a sudden downpour by about 3 minutes.  It doesn't matter whether the umbrella is up or not, this rain blows around and soaks one completely within minutes!  It is more like the spring weather in Calgary, with the clouds building up throughout the day until a massive thunder storm rolls through between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, but these happen in the morning.  Yesterday it rained, but it wasn't even cloudy.  Just one more mystery from the other side of the world.