Doris Up, Up And Away

My 92 year old mother-in-law is a frequent traveller. She accompanies us on most of our trips and all the ones we make to Florida. She is a good traveller and rarely sleeps on our long 16 hour days on our way south. This week she is travelling to New Brunswick to spend a few weeks with her sister-in -law Polly.They have been friends for longer than most of us have been living and still love each others' company. The weeks of visitation have already been filled with social engagements and I am sure that when she steps on the scale on returning to Ontario, she will be in for a shock. Down there they know how to cook and eat.

Doris gets excited when she travels and sleeps lightly the night before leaving. This morning I heard her creeping around well before her normal time of getting up. She tries to be quiet but I hear her. She has packed her clothes days before and checks and re-checks everything a dozen times.

She is not a nervous flyer and gets special treatment because of her age; seat number F, row 1. Since there is little service on flights these days she packs a good lunch. Usually she shares it with her seatmates, specially if it is a young man.

Today we drove Doris over to Hamilton to board the West Jet flight. You would never know that she was her age as she walked through security. We will miss her for a few weeks and will pick her up at her sister-in-law's house to travel home. I know Doris will have a great visit and tell us of all her adventures while in New Brunswick.