Hay, it sounds like you had a great time once you got there! Cathie -----Original Message----- From: vanessa - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx Sent On: 13/03/2012 15:03 Sent To: GUIDE CHAT - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guide.chat] My stay at my daughter's As you know I went to my daughters for the weekend, I took some bags of contributions, like bags of jelly sweets, milky bars, bread, fruit, chocolate fudge cake, creme eggs, my daughters favourite angel cakes, my grandsons favourite cheese breadsticks, malted biscuits, chocolate digestives and all the rest of the nicities. I went in the disability bus which was pre booked. The driver went the wrong way and a tiny bit lost but my son found him by chance, as he was going to the nearby shop and got in the bus too and showed him the way. My son's friends were there waiting. Yikes I thought here we go as I gripped the wheelchair arm and tried to think of it will be all over soon. The strong young lads and the driver all lifted me up the steps, I think all my fingers two times, anyways lots of steps. Half way up the steps the driver shouted tilt her back for christs sake I was upside down, my back and the back of the wheelchair was pointing towards the sky, my head was downwards pointing towards the steps, I had no seat belt, I felt myself sliding out of the seat, there was a hand on my stomach holding me in the chair, my son said it was his, he was holding me in. Chris his friend tilted the chair backwards, he was somewhere at the top end where the wheelchair handles are. Eventually I was up the steps and in my daughters new flat. After long time when I could move, my daughter showed me around her flat, the nursery is beautiful, she let me feel virtually everything, matching curtains, cot bumper, cot quilt, musical toys, matching wardrobe and chest of drawers, nursery wooden chair, lamps etcetera. Very big front room with safety gates and with toys r us in it I think, there was every toy you can imagine, musical walk alongs with shape things on it and swirly balls that rattled with learning shapes on another walk along, this big dinasaur with holes to put balls in that run through tunnels and made tunes as the ball travelled through to the dinosaurs mouth or tail. Drumset that played a tune as my grandson danced on the mat and I was pressing the cymbols, pressing these plastic shapes to make other noises. A netted playpen full of plastic balls, plastic and wooden bricks, cars, trucks, teddies, you name it they have it and my grandson passed them to me to play with, he even whistles through a plastic recorder, he walks but falls on his bottom after several steps, very forward, he is not one until april. Her bedroom is like the size of two rooms together. Big bathroom. Lots of fitted small room sized cupboards, very good for storage of half of those toys in living room lol. I kept myself busy, helping with the washing up and folding clothes, also playing with my grandson with the toys, loved the toys bit, as the big kid I am. My daughter bought and cooked a gammon joint and served it with chips and garden peas, next day we had ham and pineapple pizza. My other grandchildren all came daily to visit me and I gave them their sweets each day they came, Coming down the steps to go home was a lot better, perhaps it was because they learnt all the mistakes going up on first day. I am glad to come home, I missed you all, my flat was cold, eerie and felt like going in a haunted castle or mansion. Now the heating has warmed my flat up it is back to being homely. Welcome home to me, missed you lot madly. from Vanessa The Google Girl. my skype name is rainbowstar123