With one bus, a token, and a senior bus pass, the family walked out the door of the Ronald McDonald House.
They walked down to Thirty-ninth and Chestnut Streets to take the Septa Bus to downtown Philadelphia.
The long-awaited bus comes to a screeching halt.
Immediately the driver spots the little girl in the wheelchair.
The front door is left closed as he patiently walks to the center of the bus to lower the lift.
When the lift is level with the road, the bus driver gets out and wheels the little girl onto the ramp.
He raises the lift back up and rolls the wheelchair into place, he buckles and straps the little girl in the place.
The bus driver struggles to keep his cap on his head, because the little girl in the wheelchair, keeps pulling at it.
The little girl had everyone on the bus in stitches.
When the bus driver completes his task, everyone on the bus claps because of his patience with the little girl.
The bus driver walks back to the front of the bus, he opens the front door, and lets the rest of the passengers load onto the bus.
The passengers are putting tokens, cash fares, or scanning their bus passes on the transit service as the bus scurries away.
The buses rule the narrow roads as they travel downtown.
A conversation between the little girl's grandmother and an older woman began.
The woman said, “I once went to the hospital to hold the babies but they would not let me because I did not have insurance.” They missed a great opportunity.”
The bus arrives at Sixteenth Street and this is where the little girl is again wheeled to the chairlift and onto the sidewalk.
The family thanked the driver, he once again opened the front door, passengers loaded onto the bus, and he scurried down the street.
At Liberty Square, the family visits the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and the grave of Benjamin Franklin.
The family decides to take the seventy-minute amphibious DUCK.
There is no chair lift, the little girl has to be lifted onto the Duck, and her wheelchair is left behind.
The little girl squeals with laughter as the wind hits her face and when the DUCK hits the water, she squeals even louder.
It was very dark when the DUCK ride ended.
The family pushes the little girl safely back to Sixteenth Street where they ride the bus to Chestnut and Thirty-ninth Street.
The family arrives at their stop, the little girl and her wheelchair are unloaded, and the family walks safely back to the Ronald McDonald House.
There has been a lot of violence going on outside the downtown area of Philadelphia.
Just the day before there had been a police officer shot in the face during a routine traffic stop.
The next day the family takes a taxi to the airport.
After the mother pays the taxi driver, she soon realizes that she has been taken to the wrong airport.
The mother takes out her cell phone and calls Angel Flight. Angel Flight, in turn, calls the pilot and tells him what happened.
Angel Flight told the family to stay where they were and the pilot was on his way.
Angel Flight, is a free service (privately owned airplane pilots) who volunteer their services for people with special needs children.
The little girl had to be loaded and unloaded onto three different airplanes, the little girl did not mind for she was going home.
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