so last night 8 of us decided to go help elizabeth at 7:00pm at the place where the wheelchairs were housed. Remember, they were just released yesterday. Usually Elizabeth has the chairs 2-3 months ahead of time. We arrive at the military base after the MOST dangerous and exciting 45 minutes of a taxi ride during rush hour. At one point our cars side mirrow hit anothers as we drove next to them. We got on base and viewed a large room with hundreds of chairs piled on top of each other. we were told to move them. As we took out one.....many came tumbling down. It was like playing Jenga with wheelchairs. Not real safe but for sure exciting. We were then told that we were needed somewhere else (whew).
We walked out to the street (NO LIGHTS), opened the doors on the crate that was loaded on a semi truck and there were about 300 wheelchairs PACKED into this crate. We did not have a ramp but of course our inventor Brian Bicket designed something for us to use. 4 guys were in the trailer lifting and sliding the chairs down to the people below who would catch the sliding chairs and somehow manage to move them (the chairs were rapped in cellephane and the wheels did not roll). After organizing 300 wheelchairs and had 4 more crates, we all thought we would collapse. But GOD came along (in the form of a soldier) and said that tomorrow there would be 60 soldiers who would finish the work for us....WHAT??? unload 4 more crates....700 more wheelchairs....organize them in 3 different groups.....THEN put them ALL back on different semitrucks to be taken to the 3 different sites!!! GOD WAS THERE!!!! We got to go to bed!!!
