In September, my great-grandma turned 100.
My family had been anticipating this major milestone for a couple of years. We all planned to fly to Montana in order to celebrate. At that time, my grandma was living in a retirement facility but still caught the bus and had a lot of autonomy to go around town on her own. We found a cabin in Helena and booked the trip. After we booked the trip, my grandma got a hip injury. The injury never really healed and she had to move to a new facility, which wasn't as nice as the original one. She also had to start staying in a wheel chair most of the time. When we went to visit her in September, she could not hear or see us very well. She was very nervous for the party. She was excited but anxious. We had balloons and cake and flowers. My aunt's plane was delayed so my grandpa had to leave the party to pick her up at the airport, right in the middle of the party. My grandma ate huckleberry ice cream, it was a rich, purple shade of ice cream and it looked delicious. She got tired after an hour or so of all the socializing and we cleaned up the party and went back to our cabin. My grandma went to take a nap. I wish I could say that it was a fun trip, but there were a lot of headaches along the way. The road leading up to our cabin was getting repaved so we had a terrible time getting to the place. The people hired to clean up before we arrived refused to go and clean (because of the road) so we had to change the sheets, sweep and do a bunch of laundry right when we got to Montana. My grandparents were not very happy about this. And neither was I. We ended up getting a partial refund on the cabin. I guess family trips are meant to be memorable, even if they aren't perfect.
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