May 7 at 4:30

Timothy had his first bad experience at Madonna today. His community outing centered around a trip across town to a museum. It took 20 min. to get everything organized and Timothy and the one other participant hooked down safely in the van. It took another 20 min. to get to the museum. When we arrived, it was very chaotic with hundreds of noisey school children on a field trip. The two attendents had not brought enough money for them all to get in (they didn't seem to know it would cost). Jessica was with Timothy and offered to pay his way, but they decided to just take the other gentleman on a "tour of the grounds." Brandi, Courtney Jean, and I came in another vehicle so we paid our way in. Then we were told we had only 30 min. to look around before we had to meet and start back. We could hardly find a path to take the wheelchair with all the kids, parents, and supervisors. Besides all of that the two women in charge cannot drive a van very well or competently operate the equipment!

Timothy and I talked and decided he could be using all of this time to better use--lifting weights, practicing walking with his walker, almost anything. Next week we won't be going on group community outings.

Other than that everything is going smoothly.