Summer of Quirky Showers

Disclaimer: So you don't read this and assume I am a shower snob, I have bathed in some very "unique" ways and locations before...from buckets to sinks. I'm just always grateful to be clean!  I'm just making light of all my crazy showers this summer.

I've have showered in six different showers this summer on my Pacific adventure. (No, not six times.)  Chances are there will be another shower location on my trip home (I hope).    

My first shower was in the Narita airport (Japan).  Overall, this has probably been the most normal shower of the summer.  But simply because it was IN an airport, it made the list.  As you can see, Perry very much enjoyed his shower. :)  

Next were my Saipan showers. Saipan showers have been questionable over the years due to the fact that I haven't always had hot water. Thankfully, the Buchers DO have hot water. They also had crazy high water pressure.  (So high, that it destroyed a water hose one day when I was there. When they called the water company, they discovered it was way higher than it should be.  Normally it is between 25-40psi and it was reading at 130 psi!) Since they had a removable shower nozzle, even a trickle of water was strong enough for it to go berserk and flood the floor.)  My other Saipan shower spot is the spa.  During the years of no hot water, this was my choice shower location because they did have hot water.  But it is so loud...and there is this thudding sound that hurts my head.  It is very strange.  

Moving on to Guam.  The person that tiled the guest bathroom kind of left an arch in the middle of the shower, so the water can't reach the drain. Therefore, after every shower you had to squeegee the excess water to the drain.  The in the last week, the ants attacked the parsonage.  So, at the end of the shower, you would be standing in water with hundreds of dead, floating ants. (Still beats the roaches a few years back!)  Normally, the shower at the hotel where we had the youth retreat would have received high marks, but somehow I got the short straw--bathing after a hundred teens.  They are filthy creatures, if you haven't noticed.  

Then there was the Philippines.  At my campground location, I was sharing with 4 other islanders and me.  There was never enough hot water. (And by hot, I mean warm water.) The hotel shower started off amazing.  Awesome shower head, perfect water pressure, hot water....and then I realized the hot water lasted 48 seconds.  (Great water pressure and cold water are not compatible.)

So, there you have it folks.  The summer of quirky showers.  (And if you think I'm going home to an amazing shower.  Well, I have a hole in the side of my tub.  But maybe I'll get my bathroom redone this summer! Of course, I said that last summer.)