It was scheduled to be a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon. Seafair was in full swing and Pete & Caroline were hosting family & friends that their house with a view of the boats, hydroplanes and airshow. It seemed like a good reason to request a pass to get Shirley out of the hospital for the afternoon and into the real world.
But before she could visit her brother's house, we had to get clearance that she could negotiate the steps into the house. We got the clearance after lunch and packed up for the adventure. Since the car was parked nearly a quarter mile away, we used a wheel chair to get her to the car, but just took a walker for our journey.
Shirley did great getting up the stairs and held court on Pete & Caroline's front porch. From there, we had a fantastic view of Lake Washington and all the festivities. There were hundreds and hundreds of boats on the lake. Many tied together forming giant rafts the lined the perimeter of the hydroplane course. The race was further south on the lake, but the northern most turn of the course was within our view and we could see the rooster tails of the boats as they flew around the buoy and headed back south.
We were also treated to multiple flybys of some vintage WWII bombers and fighters and acrobatic performances by stunt planes.
It was great to see Shirley in surroundings other than the hospital and really whet her appetite for a final departure from UWMC. With a little luck and some more work in the gym, that will happen this coming week.
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