My sister and her husband invited us to join them in a trip to Fredericksburg, a German town nearby. We had so much fun!

We drove there on Sunday and returned on Monday. We ate at some great restaurants and shopped at some unique shops.

One of the challenges was getting my wheelchair in the doorway of these older shops. It barely fit so I worried each time whether it would pass through the narrow entries, but we forged ahead anyway.

One stop was to a jewelry store where I found a beautiful Tanzanite ring and the salesmen told us since that mine was now impassable, the stone now has increased in its value. I wouldn’t have considered getting it, but my husband kept encouraging me so I tried it on and it looked just beautiful! The stone is lavender, my favorite color, and the salesmen suggested that they could dip my mother’s former wedding band that I wear in white gold to match it. They looked incredibly gorgeous together. They had nabbed a customer by then. I kept looking at it so I bought it. I couldn’t believe it because I have never bought a ring before. My husband always buys me my jewelry, but this was all mine!

My sister bought a beautiful ring with Tanzanite in it that looked so beautiful on her. Then my husband bought a watch as well. I was so surprised because he doesn’t usually wear any kind of jewelry. Once we were all decked out in our jewels, we decided to go eat at a very nice restaurant, I ordered salmon and it was so tender and delicious.

We all had a terrific time!