Wonderful Lake Michigan Goessling days !!!!

All the anxiety, all the accessibility challenges,  were definitely worth a wonderful six days with 28 members strong of Dan's family!  What a delightful time - cooking teams, scrabble tournaments, late night serious talks, colorful hand fans for cooling, croquet, sunsets, onion tarts, volleyball, mounds of home fries,an outdoor shower half-a-mile away for Deb, rummy cube games, guitar music at night, health talks, root beer floats, braadworst, buckyballs, sunshine everyday, and many wonderful memories!!!  All in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan!

A Giant Adventure - the Goessling Family Reunion

The site of the of the thirty member strong Goessling family reunion is in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin at the Sand Bay Lodge and Cottages resort located on Lake Michigan.  It will be an accessibility challenge.
I offered to stay home and let Dan, Sam, Joe, and Tim attend, but they weren't buying that idea! They wanted me to come!   So ....................................

We will have our accessibility challenge.  The nearest wheelchair van rental is in Chicago, where we will fly to from Boston.  There are ramps and such at the resort, but not an accessible shower, Dan says he will use a hose!!!!  The toilet is not in a good location to work with the Hoyer lift, so we will rent a commode as well as a Hoyer lift.  I will be bringing the following for the adventure:
*Powerful grey sling to use with Hoyer lift
*Manual wheelchair as back-up
*Metric wheelchair repair kit, which always freaks out TSA, but is necessary because my Red Rover   Permobil chair is Swedish.
*Bed rail to assist with getting out of bed
*Charger for wheelchair
* Supply of blue cloths called CHUX which sit on my wheelchair cushion
*Portable gel seat to help my bottom be comfortable on the long plane ride
*Female urinal
*Courage and calmness

We will be gone from August 14 through August 19.  Keep us in your prayers, especially Dan who will need to do so much in a new place to help me out!!!!