Jo Ann and I got up very early and left Umatilla at 5:30 a.m. I just sat back and tried to get as comfortable as I could. Jo Ann doesn't like me talking to her when she gets in a tight spot. Or sometimes she just doesn't want me to talk because she is like me, can't chew gum and walk at the same time ha. Anyway I just let her go because she knows the roads good until after we get off I-95. We hardly stopped and were making good time. I do believe we stopped once somewhere but that was about it. As we got on 17 Alt, I knew we should have been on that only for a few minutes, I kept saying to Jo Ann. "you are going the wrong way, we should be on just 17 not 17Alt". She reminded me that she knew where she was going so we drove, drove and drove. finally I called Janice on my cell phone and she told me to ask Jo Ann to get off the road and she would check her map. Jo Ann still didn't want to get off, finally I told her that Janice wanted her to get off to a place where she could stop. Then she listened. Janice told her to stay on that road even though it was the wrong way and they would meet us at a shopping center where they were able to get off at an exit, can't remember which one but they were coming from the North and we were going from the South. ha. It really turned out to be much better for us as we were able to follow Janice into the condominum where we had the reservations.
We were all tired when we got inside the condo but excited to see everyone. We just left our things in the cars after we got parked and it was so good to get inside and just relax. We had such a good time. We were almost too tired to eat much but sat around and visited. Each of us chose our bedrooms and it was decided that since Osha had hearing aids and would be taking them out, that Jennie could sleep with her because she couldn't hear Jennie snore. We all got a laugh from that. We would get up in the mornings, one at a time, until everyone would come to the ktichen and eventually we would have our coffee, then decide what we all wanted to eat. Janice and Etta went to the grocery and bought lots of food and we thought we would have enough, but no way, they had to go back again and get more food before we left for home. Oh, I took my rummikub game and everyone just loved it except Vivian and Dorothy but after they learned how to play they really enjoyed it. Janice took us to see downtown Charleston. It was very nice with old buildings and an underground bunker from WW1. It was old and so interesting. At least this is how I remember it. but my memory isn't what it used to be. It is too short term. ha
We left on November 13 and Jo Ann was a wonderful driver. We filled up with gas and got on our way. It seemed to be much faster than when we went up. I believe we all would like to do that again next year. We stopped after a few hours and Jo Ann had made some chicken salad, I had some wheat bread and she had a bagle, so we made a sandwich and it sure tasted good. We got started again after about half an hour. We saw some really bad accidents going north and all cars were stopping to see if they could help even though the rescue was there. They all looked very bad and there could have been deaths, I am not sure. We got through that and were on our way again and a lady behind Jo Ann was on her tail and making her very nervous, I had my wheelchair on the lift and sometimes it looked like some of those drivers were going to run into it. Later down the road, Jo Ann started laughing and I asked her what she was laughing about, she said "I am so glad, the highway patrol has stopped that crazy lady driver ha.ha.".
Sooo that is my story about our trip and it was such a wonderful time and so great to get to see my family again. Hopefully it can happen again.
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