ADHD

In life friends and family can be very helpful because you know they care about you and you can always count on them. I am a very lucky person because I have many relatives on both sides of my family that are very caring and supportive and I enjoy being around all of them, but My aunt and uncle on my fathers side were two of the greatest people I have ever met. They lived in Florida so I didn’t get to see them as much as I would have liked to.

Every time we went on vacation in Florida they would invite us to visit them and my mother, father sister and I would all go over and usually stay all day, have dinner and me and my sister would usually sleep over while my parents went out. Their house was right next to the Indian River. It had a dock and a small boat. They also had two dogs a very old one and a younger terrier. I remember my aunt teaching me how to use a snorkel and mask in a pool. She would always show me how to do cool things like how to catch and cook a crab. Every moment I spent there I enjoyed It was a lot like going to your grandparents house. They would always make sure I ate and I would never even have to ask for food. They would also let me do things that my parents probably wouldn’t have approved of. They had a car that was older and it had no seatbelts they would let me stand on the seats and stick my head out the sunroof while they were driving. Or letting me try to walk across the Indian river, which is mostly very shallow but some parts are deep, I never made it across because I got to a deep part and I was younger and new to swimming. My aunt also had many cool decorations in the house from places she would like to the Caribbean and Japan things like a glass coffee table that had various pieces of coral, crab shells, sponges and shark teeth and lots of paintings and other art that I never really noticed because I was to busy looking at the things inside the coffee table. I would also catch a lot of lizards snakes and bugs. And me being a kid meant that I had to make sure everyone saw my catch. My mother and sister usually weren’t very interested they were more terrified I think. But my aunt would show almost as much interest in my finds as I did. One time I caught a crab and like I mentioned before she showed me how to boil it and eat it, something I didn’t quite understand because crabs don’t really look like they would be something that is good to eat, But it was!

very good. Another thing I remember is that unlike at home the television in their house was either never on, or there was no television at all, Something that I just realized now because there was always something else to do. One of the best times I ever had was the last time I visited their house in Florida, They took us on a boat ride to a small island in the river where I got to see wild dolphins jumping out of the water at a distance of about 100 feet away. I was very surprised because I never even realized that dolphins could live in a river.

Both my aunt and uncle also had pilots licenses and I remember going for a ride with them once. I remember hearing a story of my cousin going for a ride with my aunt and I also heard that when she was trying to take off he grabbed the controls and pulled back obviously he didn’t realize what that could have done but my aunt must have caught it in time to get the small two engine plane back in control. Despite that she knew it wasn’t a good idea to let kids fly a plane she let me use the copilots controls to steer the plane after she told me what certain motions did and not to move the controls fast. I was about 8 or 9 at this time and I could barely see out the window. But she let me fly in a straight path for a good while and told me not to tell my parents I never did even though I would have loved to tell them I actually flew a plane.

The last time I saw my aunt and uncle is when we finally invited them to come visit us in Buffalo during fall where the temperature is a bit below what they were used to. But they didn’t seem to mind much at all. I don’t think anyone I knew had a mood quite like hers always positive and happy. Every time I think of them I see them smiling because they really did always have a smile on their faces. A couple years after that my Aunt got word that she was going to be a grandma because her daughter was having a boy. I heard from my grandma that when she heard this news she was happier then ever I wish I could have seen her smile then. She was on vacation with my uncle in the carribean with her two engine prop plane at this time.

Her last flight was over the carribean sea but In her excitement she forgot to do one very important thing which a skilled pilot like my aunt and uncle would never overlook. The plane they were flying had a separate fuel tank for takeoffs and landings and after takeoff they never switched back to the larger flight fuel tanks. This caused the engines to stall while they were over water making the heavy two engine plane crash into the water killing them both. Because of this I have always wondered why small prop planes don’t have ejection seats or parachutes for when these sort of things happen. Anyways I really wish I would have spent more time with my aunt and uncle because the memories of the times I spent with them are some of my favorite memories.