A Summer of Firsts

This has been an amazing summer for me, full of many firsts.  

1.  It was our first experience with flooding in our basement.  Due to a broken sprinkler pipe in our neighbor's yard, one of our window wells filled up with water and leaked through the window sill, down the wall, and onto the carpet.  Luckily, Alan happened to be sleeping in that basement bedroom that night (he was feeling nauseous and didn't want to get me sick since I seem to catch everything.)  It happened again during the day while Alan was at work and I frantically called some neighbors.  My 7-month-pregnant neighbor Summer came to the rescue for me.  She knew of people on the street that had sump pumps, and she spent a couple hours vacuuming up the water in the carpet.  We spent the next 5 days airing out our carpet and carpet padding with fans before we were able to tack the carpet back down.

2. Alan and I ate at the Roof Restaurant for the first time.  For my parents' anniversary, they treated all of their children and spouses to dinner at the Roof to sort of thank us for the anniversary party that we surprised them with last summer.  I don't think I'll ever be able to afford to eat there again, but I swear my life will never be the same after eating there.  A-MAZING food. 

3. I had my first allergic reaction to a prescription: amoxicillin.  Who knew I was allergic to it?  I used to have it all the time as a kid.  I was prescribed it to take care of a sinus infection and broke out in a horrible rash that lasted about 5 days.  I seriously looked like I had the measles or something.  It was crazy.

4. Last night, Alan and I went with six other members of my family to see this for the first time:

Wow, it was amazing.  Now I understand what all the big hype is about it.  I couldn't fall asleep because I was re-playing it in my mind for forever.  We bought our tickets last December, so it's been fun to look forward to this for eight months.  Now I'm dying to see it again!