A Word from God’s Waiting Room

Although it was cool when we left Parkside for a trip to Grafton (IL), the sun was out and it did help us deal with cabin fever many of us had begun to develop.  For such trips, we indicate our desire by putting our names on a ’sign-up’ sheet.  The Activity Director was relieved when a few had to cancel out. More had signed up than the bus capacity.  Yes, the bus was a bit crowded but we had a congenial group with the exception of one, sometimes downright rude, woman.  Yeah,  Dortha (the Peach/Pink lady) went but Virginia was seated between her and me–so no problem there. 

Why Grafton?  The thinking at the time the activity was given birth was that it would be much warmer and sitting on an out-side deck of a restaurant visiting or playing Bingo or just watching boats plying the river would be a nice diversion.  Furthermore, we could experience the joy once more of crossing the river on a ferry (yeah, it takes buses). Oh I have to tell you this restaurant is a part of a very large landing for many boats and it sits above a gift shop and something else.  As you can imagine a bus load of old people–some with walkers, several with canes and the remainder challenged to do many stairs.  Fortunately, the restuarant had a what was reported to be a four-person elevator–but it wasn’t.   Every time four boarded the thing, it would get stuck about half-way up!  Well, we can still think, so we figured that three was the limit.  At three per, it performed quite well (and don’t get the idea that we’re all fat–not the case). The food was good (mostly sandwiches or salads), and was reasonbly priced.  I had a B’BQ sandwich and home-made chips; Virginia chose the cheese cake.  She took a liking to my sandwich and I did the same to her dessert (we’ve been doing that for years), so we shared. 

At about 2 pm we made our way to the bus and made our way home.  As most of you can imagine, when we entered the door of our apartment, both cats seemed to say, “O.K. folks it’s time to take us outside for a walk and some sunning.”  We did. It was a beautiful day for an outing.  Life in God’s Waiting Rooms is great.  God is good–He is good all the time.