Sorry I haven't written for a while. Things have just been crazy here!
You know the one. When everything's happening you have no time yet when nothing's happening you have all the time in the world. Or it feels like it. I will make effort to post every Wednesday as I attempt to do. I've not been that good at it but I do promise to try!
Sorry!
Last Friday I went out with someone I'm employing as my PA who's awesome. It was an amazing night and one that I hope will continue!
On Tuesday I went to IFly in Basingstoke which is just phenomenal. They really do cater for everyone - people in wheelchairs included. It was so freeing and so incredible.
I was a little nervous and apprehensive in the morning - wondering how it was going to play out.
I soon realised.
We all got into a blue all in one suit
Two guys came in with us to the wind tunnel. They were strong and muscular.
They wheeled us in our wheelchairs right to the bench that we had to wait on until our turn.
I was 2nd in line!
It just felt incredible in the air and it was all too soon that one came back to reality.
But it was super and we went up to the top of the wind tunnel and I never wanted to come back down!
If it's affirmed anything for me, it's how much I'd love to do a real skydive and I will definitely be going again for this experience.
Steph
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Friday, 30 June 2017
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
The Aurora
On Friday I was in Southampton on a tour of one of a P&O cruise ship, the Aurora. It was brilliant! We had a 3 course meal on there too! That evening they were setting off on a Western Mediterranean cruise which meant that people were boarding while we were on the ship which was lovely. So it was lively, at lunch anyway! But the ship is so good for wheelchairs, though pushing myself on the thick carpet was strenuous at times and I was really glad to wheel quite harmoniously on the deck!
It was a brilliant idea to go on a tour of a Cruise Ship and one that is owed to Lucy Brown at Disability Initiative who organised the trip. Not forgetting those who came with us who made it a really joyful and interesting event for us to attend. Facilities did cater for disabled people very well, as there were lifts to each floor. The only places with steep ramps were getting into the cinema and the theatre. Other than that, everywhere was flat and very accessible.
We saw the gym, the spa, the theatre, the cinema, shops and of course all the food outlets. Someone I was with made the fair point that with so many eateries you could very easily put on weight. This is true, without a structure to your day you could very easily. But the beauty of a cruise is that you are not in the same place for more than a few days at most, and you are always moving or doing something.
Steph
XxX
It was a brilliant idea to go on a tour of a Cruise Ship and one that is owed to Lucy Brown at Disability Initiative who organised the trip. Not forgetting those who came with us who made it a really joyful and interesting event for us to attend. Facilities did cater for disabled people very well, as there were lifts to each floor. The only places with steep ramps were getting into the cinema and the theatre. Other than that, everywhere was flat and very accessible.
We saw the gym, the spa, the theatre, the cinema, shops and of course all the food outlets. Someone I was with made the fair point that with so many eateries you could very easily put on weight. This is true, without a structure to your day you could very easily. But the beauty of a cruise is that you are not in the same place for more than a few days at most, and you are always moving or doing something.
Steph
XxX
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