Friday night plus a doctor visit

Soooo here we go. It took Brad and I five hours to get to Atlanta Friday. Normally it only takes around three but there was so much traffic because of everyone heading that way. We finally pulled into the parking lot of the hotel around 8:30pm. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, an Indian man tapped on Brad's window. The guy had on every day clothes-nothing that would distinguish him as an employee of the hotel. Brad asked what he wanted and the guy said that he would get Brad a parking spot if we were staying at the hotel, otherwise they charge for parking spots. Brad explained that we are staying so the guy motions for Brad to pull into a spot. Weird-but whatever. So we walked into the hotel lobby and there was NO ONE around, except for the two Indian guys behind the counter (again in every day clothes). Brad checked us in and then asked for a luggage cart. The guy said, "We don't have those." Ooook. So Brad tells me that we are on the second floor and we needed to go find the elevators. We walked and walked and then realized.....there were no elevators. You had to walk up a flight of stairs to get to the second floor!!! So we walked up the stairs and as soon as we got to the top, the worst smell hits us in the face. We don't know exactly what is was, but it seemed to be a mixture of Indian food, body odor, mildew and dirt? We opened the door to our room.....and the air was completely off. It was about 95 degrees in there. Greeeeat. The carpet was so dirty that I refused to take my shoes off. I pulled the comforter on to the floor so I could sit on the bed.....the comforter had TONS of cigarette burns on the under side of it. Gross! I looked to see what time it was.....no clock. Brad then decided to go find the ice dispensor thing out in the hall....couldn't find it....picks up the phone in the room to call the front desk and ask them where the ice dispensor is...the phone doesn't freakin WORK! What the crap?!?!?!? I tried my very best to just suck it up and deal with it, but my hormones combined with the 95 degree heat just couldn't take it anymore. I busted out in tears and told Brad that I would be sleeping in the car before I spent the night in that place! So he went downstairs and demanded a refund. Luckily, we got all of our money back. So we hit the road in search of another room. Brad's brother was staying at a hotel about 10 minutes away so we called them to see if their hotel had any rooms. They had a room for that night only.....beggars can't be choosy, right? So we checked in. As it turned out, some guys were leaving the next day and we were able to get their room for Saturday and Sunday nights. BUT we had to check out of our original room Saturday morning and couldn't check back in to the other room until 8:00pm Saturday night so we hung out with Brad's brother's family all day. WHEW.

So our vacation could have been realllllly bad, but thankfully everything worked out. We went to the Georgia Aquarium on Sunday and had a good time. There were a TON of people there and like I said in an earlier post I'm realllly claustrophobic now so we ended up only staying there about two hours. After we left, I took about a five hour nap at the hotel because I was still exhausted from the football game!

I also started having some lower abdominal pain around Friday that continued (and got a little worse) as the weekend progressed. I assumed it was just round ligament pain from all the stress and walking that we were doing. But this morning I just really wanted to get checked out and make sure that everything was ok. I would rather be the annoying patient that calls about everything that be too mellow about everything and something really be wrong. So I called my doctor's office and they wanted to see me right away-freak the pregnant lady out please! I've gained another pound since I was at the doctor two weeks ago so I've gained a total of 4 pounds now. Looong story short, everything is fine with the baby. The heartrate was 148bpm and the doctor checked to make sure I wasn't dilating and I wasn't. So it was just round ligament pain after all. AND the doctor told me that if I didn't already have an ultrasound scheduled in two weeks, he would have gone ahead and done one today. DANGIT! Oh well, I guess we will just have to wait 16 more days!