The year progressed on and I traveled many places looking for a cure and spreading the word that we needed help to cure this disease.  About mid summer I decided to get up to see Dixie before the snow flew.  The night I drove in he area received 20 inches of lake effect band snowing.....I never want to drive in that again but here I was in beautiful Cleveland ready to Celebrate in a big way .wth members of the site I was meeting for the first time.                                                                                                                                                         

The next day was just such an experience. crammed packed with things she needed done like the post office , dentist and of course, a walmart run,  Then off to the mall and new glasses and Barnes and Nobles.  That evening  Dixie and I were the guest of her son at the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall.  Dixie's son Hahns plays the french horn and so we had access to the orchestra afterwards.   They played Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.8 in C minor. I had never been to a concert like this before and the music was so exciting that toward the end I so wanted  to stand up and yell WHOOOOhowoooo.  I contained myself but did give eveyone a hug and thanked them for the experience.

That night we got our pajamas on and snuggled down in bed to discuss the events of the day and the direction our lives were taking .  We got a phone call from California where Karen and Marian had just attended the Parkinson Princesses Honoring at Sunnyvale Clinic in California.  They Were in a hotel with huge beds and with them both being five feet or so were laughing  neither one of them could get on the beds and if they did their feet didn't touch the floor.  Though thousands of miles away from each other and many years difference in age me played and laughed as if we were children once again.....anticipating a pillow fight or hidden chocolate...stached for just such an ocassion.  Life takes funny turns but if you keep your eyes and ears open there is so much to be learned and enjoyed.....with or without Parkinson's.