On Saturday, November 16 it rained for the first time since being here! It was awesome! And when I say rained, I really mean that we had a few nice showers. We all had a good laugh when the ISG kids were sent home early the next day because of the threat of rain. We really thought it was crazy when school was cancelled on Monday and it turned out to be a sunny day. Then I thought it was just getting ridiculous when I got a text Tuesday morning telling me that even Connor's little preschool would be closed for the day! Then Wednesday, November 20 happened...
I was a raging insomniac for most of my pregnancy and the last few weeks were the worst. I didn't fall asleep until about 2 am that day. At 3 am I woke up to Harry getting out of bed and rambling off a few choice four letter words. I asked him what's wrong and he told me that our room is flooded! He had woken up to what he thought was the sound of me taking a shower. In reality it was the sound of water running over the stairs and falling to the first floor. We were both really confused while trying to find out where the water was coming from. Is the toilet overflowing? Is the shower leaking? Do we have a leak in the ceiling? Nope, none of the above. Turns out it was coming in from under the door that leads out to the balcony. It also turns out that the balcony has drains on it for in case of a situation like this...who knew! And in an evil twist of fate, our drains were covered! You see the balcony has a small barrier around the bottom so when it rained really hard in such a short amount of time it basically created a little pool. When the water got high enough, it started coming into our bedroom. We literally had at least an inch of standing water in our room that made its way out of the room and started falling downstairs into the living room. The floor is ceramic tile which was very slick so I stayed in the bed...laughing hysterically as I watched Harry walking around aimlessly, trying to figure out what to do. All we had were bath towels, a broom, and a dust pan! At some point Harry noticed the covered drains so the water started to go down a little faster. A few friends of ours came over to help after they got their places dried out...this happened to a whole bunch of us! They came to the rescue with a squeegee broom which helped speed things up! Have a look at all the fun we had for a couple of hours!
In the midst of all this I was having contractions. I had been having contractions for weeks, but they were getting stronger and more regular the whole day before and throughout the night. After a couple of hours of sleep I decided that we should head to the hospital for me to get checked. I was starting to get worried about the road conditions and I certainly didn't want to be stuck on them during an emergency situation. Take a look at what our drive to the hospital looked like! It was absolutely crazy!!
I had to snap this pic while I was in the ER waiting to be brought up to the maternity floor. Only in Saudi Arabia would you see something like this...
I was very disappointed when the doctor wouldn't admit me, but stay tuned...because less than 48 hours later we were in a mad dash to the hospital!
