12/16/18 - On 2/12, I got up at 7:00 am to finish packing and meeting my ride at Esther's house in Sarasota at 8:30 am.  My flight was out at 10:10 am from Sarasota to Charlotte, North Carolina.  I had an hour lay over so was hoping to have time to get a sandwich since the next flight was at least 4 hours but I soon learned that I had to walk from Terminal E to Terminal B.  They do have some people movers so that helped but I only had about 10 minutes and then they did start the boarding process late so it was longer at the gate.  I did quickly walk around the corner and got a bag of chips.  I had a good flight but was about 15 minutes late getting in and 1st Cousin Ron was in early.  He is Aunt Ada's son and was coming in to visit his mother and attend a medical conference.  He rented a car so we  had transportation to the rehab center when Aunt Ada was.  Because of the distance and traffic, we got to the rehab center around 7:00 pm.  We said our greetings and gave her a hug and then cousin Robyn, Ron and I went to get some dinner.  Ron and I stayed at Aunt Ada's house.  Off to bed.

2/13 - Ron and I decided to meet Aunt  Ada at around 10:00 am since she would be back from her therapy.  We visited for a while, then went for lunch.  Ron got tickets to visit the Desert Botanical Gardens but of course Aunt Ada could go and Robyn needed to stay and get some instructions regarding Aunt Ada's therapy so it was just Ron and I.  Ron was very kind and gave two of the tickets to a couple that had just gotten to the window to purchase tickets.  He also had a dinner reservation at a restaurant in the gardens.  We walked around for a while but then of course I needed to sit and rest so I sent him on his way to do more exploring since of course he could cover alot more area.  He did come back and walked me to a small art museum in the gardens that was very neat.  We discussed regarding the fact that I would be only to see a small part of the light show that was going to happen after dark and Ron stated I would be missing alot but I wanted him to enjoy it so told him I would just do what I could.  We had seen that some wheelchairs were around so checked and sure enough we good get a rental for free.  I gave up and swallowed my pride since I really did want to see more of the light show.  We had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant.  Soon it was dark and poor Ron was wheeling me around!!  The light show was phenomenal.  It got a little chilly but I did survive.  Ron took some short videos to show his mother later.  We got back to the house a little before 8:00 pm.  Ron went to bed early since he had to leave early to attend the medical conference.