Rodriguez Family Events

After many years of faithful service, Mom has decided to replace her old car with a relatively new car. It's a bit bigger than her former car, but, there's plenty of room in the back. While not exactly NEW, Mom's car should last for a while. It was an adventure getting ready for inspection as the car needed to go through a driving cycle. Mom took the car out on Roosevelt Boulevard and I-95 for a bit, but, when a couple of sensors refused to cooperate, we called on Anthony, to really give the car a workout on I-95. While we were out on the road, we stopped at one of the last remaining video stores in the region. It was quite sad. There was no new anime -- nearly everything they had in stock was used. We picked up a couple of t-shirts, one DVD and a couple of CDs. Overall, it was nice to have some place other than Walmart or Target to look through DVDs. The store is just too far away to be of any use to me. Later, we got back to the inspection station and the last two sen...

Over the weekend, Mom and Amanda decided to go to the Philadelphia Flower Show. Mom was very excited on Sunday morning. Amanda called for a cab around 11:30am and they got into Center City around noon. There were a lot of road closures as the St. Patrick's Day parade was scheduled for this past Sunday. Due to road closures and detours, the cab driver had to let them off a couple blocks from the Convention Center. Once Mom and Amanda arrived at the Convention Center, they had to turn in their tickets and get their hands stamped. It was a bit more walking than Mom had bargained for, so, Amanda went off in search of a scooter. Apparently, you cannot rent a scooter unless you call ahead and let the Convention Center staff know that you need a scooter. Eventually, Amanda returned with a wheelchair. The flower show exhibits were beautiful, but, the exhibit space was so small and there were so many people packed into the space, that maneuvering a wheelchair through the ignorant masses pro...