Fun with Grandma Park

Alden and I had his Grandma Park at our place for a few days. We both had to work on Friday so she had to stay at our apartment alone all day. When I got home I realized that Alden had forgotten to show her where the light switches for the kitchen/living room/dining room were located. She was sitting in complete darkness with the television turned up all the way. Now I know she is hard of hearing and wears hearing aids but it was crazy. She turned it down when I got home (or so she thought it was turned down). I thought it was still blaring. As she started to nod off watching the news, I slowly and quietly inched my hand toward the remote to turn it down some more. Mission accomplished! I did this about three more times to get it down to what I still thought was loud, but I could hear myself think. Finally when we left to go to dinner, Alden realized that her hearing aids weren't turned up enough and had her fix them. We had quite a laugh.

On Saturday we took her to Sea World. Her memory isn't so good, so even though I explained what we were doing, she still had no clue why we were driving so far. She thought we were just going to the beach. She was pleasantly suprised to discover that we were going to spend the day looking at animals and seeing shows. We rented a motorized wheelchair/scooter thing for her to ride in. That was hilarious! She was dangerous when turning around. She would turn the wheel as far as it would go and press the gas all the way down, so she whipped around at about mock 90. Luckily she didn't run into anyone, just came close a few times. It amazed me how people don't give you one inch with those motorized carts. They walk right in front of them and crowd you making you afraid to move or run into them. Alden had to drive the cart where ever there was heavy traffic. I think Grandma may have given herself whiplash a few times starting and stopping so fast.

Sunday we went to the beach for a few hours and watched the water and birds. Grandmas favorite part was watching the little kids playing. Then we went to Alden's Aunt Sandy's house in Long Beach for Mother's Day dinner. Her partner Mara made chicken fried steak and the works. Then for dessert there was homemade cake and icecream. Yummy! We left Grandma at Sandy's and she is flying back to Idaho today. We had a fun time visiting with her.

Nothing new is going on. Now I just need to get back on schedule and get the apartment put back together.

Until next time...