The rain started on Thursday night....just in time for the Seattle fans to feel right at home as they flew into town for the Super Bowl. By Friday morning, we were getting the waterworks in through the vent in the back bedroom again. This is the fan above where my bed used to sit, but thank goodness I had moved it to the other side of the bedroom for Gary to use until the new bigger bed arrived on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, I had the futon sitting in that area of the bedroom and it got rain soaked, the carpet was wet and looking overhead we could see the drywall areas where the tape was bubbling up and finally had to poke holes for the water to drip through before it ruined whole large sections of the drywall. Major repair work ahead that could have been prevented if the handyman I hired a year ago had only listened to me and gotten rid of the fan and that roof vent and closed it all off at the time instead of just changing out the fan to a light for that corner of the bedroom. Nobody listens to me....he thought it would be quicker and cheaper to do it his way, and now I will pay for the repairs from the most recent damage. I ended up giving away the wet futon, have a roofer coming on Tues. to give me an estimate to repair the roof damage, and will need to find a reliable drywaller to do the inside work.

Kelly worked extra hours on Friday helping me to clean up the water mess, and set up the new bed when it arrived. It turns out the separate bedframe wasn't in as perfect condition as was advertised when I bought it from craigslist, as the middle part of the frame didn't set level without adding concrete blocks under it. By the time we finally got it together, with the older queen bed still in the way, we couldn't move the bigger, heavy bed without pushing it off the blocks we needed to level the center of the frame, and it now sets so high, we need a small trampoline to spring up into the bed. lol I tried to get son to help move the queen bed out of the room, as I thought he was planning to get rid of his bed and take this one, but he changed his mind. I think he didn't want to mess with taking it apart and moving it all to his room, so it still sits in our room until I can get it sold. I already gave one away as well as the futon, and I'm not giving this one away for free, especially since I paid too much for the cal king bed to replace it. It's been a struggle getting Gary into the bigger bed these last few nights, but when Kelly gets here today, I'm going to have her help me take it apart and try setting the box springs down into the frame instead of on it, and that should lower it by a good 6-8 inches.

On Saturday, the rain chances dropped from 60% to 20% and we were supposed to head to the downtown area to meet up with Gary's niece and her hubby from Seattle at the NFL Experience. It was a go, no go situation for a couple of hours until the rain finally stopped. We bundled Gary up in a rain poncho and headed down to participate in all the pre-Superbowl craziness. We had to park about 6 blocks from where we planned to meet everyone, our middle son, daughter-in-law and grandson included, and we walked through large crowds of people to get to Chase Field where the Seahawk rally was to take place around 1:30. Every street corner had a preacher bellowing out the gospel and people pushing through the crowds to get where they were going - it was totally insane. We got to the stadium area around 1:45 and stood in the large crowd inching our way forward for nearly an hr. before we got inside the stadium. Security was very tight, but they did allow me to take Gary's thickened drink in with us and I had already changed out my purse before we left home and took only a small clutch purse. Our daughter-in-law had a small purse but because it wasn't see through was forced to empty it, keep the contents and toss the purse. She was a little upset as she had just bought that purse recently, but rules are rules and they didn't care. The rally didn't last long, probably less time than the amount of time we stood in line to get in, so we headed out to get back on the road ahead of the crowds. At least we were able to see the niece and her hubby for a short while, then they were off to meet up with their friends. We were lucky to get on the road for home ahead of the crowds, and Gary was pretty tired by then, but Dan wanted to stop home, use the bathroom and go out to eat so we headed to a local casino for dinner and ended up staying too long to play. Didn't lose any money but by then Gary was totally exhausted..........too long of a day and too much activity for him. I needed Dan's help getting him into bed that night.

Sunday morning Gary slept in while I cleaned up the kitchen and living room, and Dan started some sausages in the crockpot with spaghetti sauce and veggies. I got him up just in time for communion around noon. He watched a little of the pre-game stuff and then went down for a nap before the big game. I didn't care that the Seahawks lost, I just didn't like that the Patriots won as I have never been a fan of Brady after seeing him throw temper tantrums on the field while spewing the "F" word for all to see on national television. I have to admit he's either grown up a bit or been threatened to watch his temper on the field because I didn't see any tantrums yesterday. Anyhow, I think the Seahawks handed that game over on a silver platter and whoever made that stupid call for a pass on the 1/2 yard line at the end should lose their job over it. That was ridiculous!!

Back to reality after the big weekend. I will help Kelly get Gary up, get the big bed readjusted to make it easier to get into at night, and then I'm off for some "me" time to either get a massage or go play at the casino. Who knows I may even run into some celebrities in town for the big game or the Phoenix open.......not that I would recognize any football players without their helmets and jerseys but there are plenty of others in town also. lol

Sarah