Wow, 1 year already!

Carlos and I had a wonderful weekend in Niagara Falls. Since our actual anniversary was yesterday, we both took the day off and went on our trip from Saturday until Monday.

We got to Niagara in the early afternoon on Saturday and were able to check into our room early. It was a gorgeous room with an amazing view of both the American and the Canadian falls! We lucked out! Since the weather was nice, we decided to walk down to the falls and look around. We did the journey behind the falls where you can walk behind the falls and we also did a new attraction called “Niagaras Fury” which is a simulation ride about the falls. It was okay, but not worth the amount of money they charged for it. We walked around a bit more and then went for dinner. After dinner we went back to our room to watch the falls illumination. That was neat; they lit up the falls with all different colours.

On Sunday, we did a bunch of things. We went to an IMAX movie since it was raining, then walked down to Clifton Hill and went to Brick City (a whole city built of lego), and to the Rainforest Café for lunch. We then checked out the WWE store, which was neat. We also went to the Guiness World Records museum, the wax museum, and then we did this huge maze game where we had to run around and find different towers and items. After that, we did the maid of the mist, which was super cool! You get SOAKED, luckily they give you ponchos! We got really close to the falls, which was amazing. What a neat experience! After that, we were pretty tired, so we went back to the room to rest for a bit before dinner.

We decided to go out for a nice dinner on Sunday night to celebrate our anniversary (I know it was a few hours early, but oh well). We went to the Keg which was in the hotel next door on the 9th floor, so with a nice view of the falls. Carlos completely surprised me with a beautiful card in which he had written a poem for me. What a sweetie; it was amazing! He also gave me the most gorgeous diamond necklace! It has 7 diamonds in a wavy vertical line starting with smaller diamonds at the top and then the diamonds get larger on the way down. It’s SOOO pretty! I was totally blown away! I certainly am spoiled!!!!

We didn’t buy any souvenirs on our trip, but we did buy our first item for the baby. We found a Portugal onesie in a sports store that was just too cute to pass up. That was the first item of clothing we bought for the baby; all the other things we have so far my mom bought!

Yesterday, we got back in the early afternoon and relaxed for awhile. I had my first prenatal pilates class, which was fun. There are about 12 of us in the class, and I am in the middle in terms of due date, the earliest due date in the class is mid-December and the latest is late March. There is actually one other woman in the class with my exact same due date, which is neat! That’s the first time I’ve been with other people pregnant and due around the same time as me, so I’m sure we’ll have lots to talk about over the next several weeks.

Last night, we actually remembered to take the top tier of our wedding cake our of the freezer and have a piece in honour of our anniversary. It was yummy!

I can’t believe we’ve been married a year already; it’s gone by so quickly!

Now it’s back to work for another week. At least it’s a 4-day work week for me! Yesterday was my last day off until late October likely. Although, next Tuesday, I do have a couple hours off in the morning since it is ultrasound day! Yay! One week to go!

So I’m at 19 weeks now. I’m still waiting to be able to feel the baby move. They say with first time moms the average for when you can first feel the baby move is between 18 and 22 weeks. So, it could still be a couple weeks yet. Yesterday morning, I did feel a bubbling sensation I had never felt before, but that was only once, so who knows, it could have been something else.