This weekend I went to visit my grandfather with my mom. We took a flight dow to San Diego where he lives and visited him in his new home, which is a retirement community. This place was really neat! They had different levels of care, little studio apartments for the single people in a high rise, and little mini houses all over the nice green grounds where both single and little old couples can live. The management even let you have a little pet if you wanted one in the little houses. The place had many walking paths, a pool, all kinds of fun actives and entertainment, food included in the payments, and a very friendly staff. The food was pretty good I have to say, I personally thought that it was going to be all mushy and full of bran. Surprisingly it was not! My grandfather was a pilot in WWII, and had begun to hang up all of his old pictures of his plane and crew as he settled into his new diggs. There were not too many men in this place and all the little old ladies all made sure to say hi to him when we walked by and one even joined us for dinner. They were all very interesting people and had good senses of humor, not to mention stories to tell about they days when they were young. When we were eating breakfast this morning, my mom asked me to picture all the old people in the dinning hall as teenagers. At first I thought this was a weird suggestion but then I looked around at all they bobbing grey haired folk around me and I could kinda see it. I imagined my class old now, and laughed to my self, knowing that was a long way off. God its going to be strange seeing us all gray and winkled someday.
Later we were talking about my grandma, who died 2006, and just how expensive all her care was since she got Alzheimer's and needed constant care. My mom and I were a bit worried about my grandpa's finances since most of it went to the care of my grandma. I guess you can't really predict things like that most of the time and it just happens, so at least part of you has to be prepared both emotionally and financially. I wished there was another way for my grandpa to get some money these days, at least to save it for a rainy day.
Back to the happy stuff. The over all point of this was to express that old people really are truly amazing people and have so much to share with us, so if you have some of these witty old people in your family, go and visit! Ask questions and soak up all the experiences that they had.
That will end my blog for today now go visit your old people.
P.s. Save for retirement ASAP! (Just in case).
