Steve's (aka Knip) Mystic Adventure

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As promised in an earlier post...

Just to show that I now have way too much time on my hands, here is

my adult version of " What I did on summer vacation " ! LOL

My wife, Anne, and I returned on Saturday from a vacation trip to

Mystic, CT. Anne grew up in that area and her family still lives

there. We went down for a visit to Mystic Aquarium and the Mystic

Seaport with our godson and his family. It was a wonderful

time, and we had the best 4 days of weather of the entire summer!!!

No problems with the arrangements for O2, in fact, it was delivered

to the hotel one week early. Both concentrator and liquid for

filling my Marathon unit were provided. On a side note, I have

nothing but great things to say about the Apria people that I deal

with - they have been wonderful and have always gone the extra bit

for me.

Lot's of walking, but also lots of opportunities to sit and take a

breather. There were frequent times when I would sit on a bench

somewhere with in his stroller while the rest of the group

would board a tall ship or take part in some activity that was

suitable for 's 3 year old sister, Grace.

We had connecting rooms at the 's that we stayed at and

it was fun to hear a little knock on the door every morning, followed

by Grace's head peeping around the corner after she opened the door.

Once she saw that we were awake, she would swing the door open and

run in and jump on the bed...then we'd hear pounding across

the floor on his hands and knees. Once he came around the corner and

could see us he would break out into a big smile and scoot on over to

us. He loved being on the bed and trying to dive off the side head-

first! We even kept the two kids with us the last night, gave them

supper and put them to bed, while their mom and dad had a nice quiet

dinner out.

All in all a very exhausting time, but well worth it. I never got my

usual afternoon nap and I joked with Anne that you could tell

that the trip was exhausting when I was looking forward to driving

the 4 hours home as time to rest. It was good preparation for our

week long trip to Disney World in December with my daughter, Beth.

Having been there several times, we already know that it works best

when we go back to our room for a rest/nap during the early afternoon

before going back out to the parks in the evening.

OH, and while on vacation I only gained .2 pounds - of course it

helped that most of the time we were too busy to stop to eat! So, I

only need to lose 3 more pounds before my next appt at the transplant

program on September 10th.

Steve aka...Knip Dx 9/07 confirmed via VATS 12/07

57 NH