"We live in the butt-crack of a cloud, how can that be less damp than it is here?"
Welcome (back) to a climate that gets above 70° in the summer months. Ugh.
It's funny, growing up (t)here I learned in various science classes that it was a "temperate rain-forest." Temperate? Check. Forest? Check. Rain-Forest? Umm, if you say so.
Now, I understand. Only too well.
(Birthday was great, wedding was lovely, I'll post about them and the "ordeal" later)