Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Florida: It Was SO Worth the Trip!!
We just returned from a week spent with our kids and grandkids in Florida. Traveling is always a BIG Deal with Parkinson's! Packing and remembering all the things we need to take with us is exhausting even before the trip begins...Don's Meds, check; Carol's Meds, check; manual wheelchair, check; electric toothbrushes, check; extra unders, check; Living Will, check; Power of Attorney, check; walker, check; etc., etc. Oh, Yes...and a huge kite for Kami's Birthday and the "butterfly in a jar" and "firefly in a jar" that slowed us up going through security( even more than usual). We had such a good time, in spite of Don falling out of A.J.'s bed, and briefly losing his suit pants at the temple (belt too loose and no suspenders). It's way TOO HOT and HUMID in Florida this time of year, but we wouldn't have missed the long awaited Hashey Family's sealing and spending every morning in the community pool at Jessica's was refreshing. We just can't figure out how people lived in Florida before air conditioning. We missed the best week of summer (so far) in Seattle and traded it for rain and thunder storms in Tampa, but how we loved being with the kids and grandkids! Don bought Truman a bow and arrows so he can go hunting with his dad this fall; I enjoyed working two puzzles with Kami and Jessica and playing their new digital piano and listening to Kami practice. We watched Kami's dance class and A.J.'s gymnastics. They treated us to the CherryBerry Frozen Yogurt Bar and Kobe, Japanese Steakhouse and a local family's grill (with the best hamburgers ever!!) and of course, we went to Chick-fil-a and breakfast-for-dinner at IHop. All of that, and the lunch with Mindy and Billy and family and friends at Olive Garden meant that we were fed and entertained like royalty. A BONUS was when we were able to volunteer for a later flight when our flight was overbooked (Thanks to Jessica for being flexible picking us up) and were rewarded with a voucher worth another trip for the two of us...Yay!! We'll be going back again next year for Alishia and Zach's wedding...in June...(oh, why couldn't they have chosen January or February?)!!
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