It was lunchtime and we went out to get some fresh breadrolls from HEMA, a shop with lots of interesting things, such as gloves, chocolate and umbrella's. I found some nice foldable ones, and since mine had given up recently, I decided now would be a good time to buy a new one.

It was such a sunny day, rain seemed far away but I still managed to convince Five that the black foldable umbrella with the manly handle would suit him nicely. We shopped, we paid, we went home while the sun was shining. And even if it was going to rain, as predicted, we had our wonderful new umbrella's!

Once we got home, we had lunch, and coffee and watched The Simpsons. Then we decided to test out our new purchases. It is considered unlucky to open up an umbrella indoors. But mind opened up just fine, even if it did look a bit flimsy. I mean, I am not going to use it in wind force 10 situations.

However, Five's manly umbrella decided to explode. The umbrella top came off, fully opened, the spring in the handle came out and hit him in the side, and we now had one umbrella in two parts.

No problem, we can always go back and get money back. So one more coffee, then coats on and off we went. We did look a bit silly, with an umbrella top fully opened. But it is just a short walk to the shops. Then... it started to rain.

Half an umbrella is not useful in rainy conditions. But when we got to the shop, soaking wet, they did give us back the money and by the time we left for home again, it was dry. I wish I had taken a picture of the umbrella, but the batteries of the camera were empty. Anyway, I have a cool new umbrella!