VIDEO: 100-Year-Old Woman Sees Ocean For First Time

[Baitball Blogger]

100-year-old Ruby Holt saw an ocean for the first time this week. After spending most of the last century picking cotton and raising a family on a farm in rural Tennessee, Holt’s lifelong wish to hit the beach was granted by the Wish of a Lifetime organization. The group transported the centenarian from her assisted living center to the Gulf of Mexico just a few weeks shy of her 101st birthday.

Wish of a Lifetime learned about Holt when two of the workers at the facility where she lives filled out a wish application on her behalf after finding out she’d never been to the ocean. Holt says her family could never afford a vacation to the coast, and that she’d only left Tennessee once before. When the organization heard about Holt, it arranged her all-expenses-paid 400-mile journey to the Alabama coast.

Despite the cool temperatures, she laughed while walking barefoot on the sand. “I’ve heard people talk about it and how wonderful it was and wanted to see it, but I never had the opportunity to do so,” Holt explained to the Associated Press. Marveling at the ocean’s size, she remarked, “We don’t have nothing like this in Giles County.”

http://www.gossipcop.com/100-year-old-woman-ocean-first-time-video/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Ruby Sees All

[greatlaurel]

2. What a nice thing for the organization to do, too bad it was so cold.

What an neat lady.

[lpbk2713]

3. I'm glad it worked out for her.

She made it through a hundred years, she ought to get something special.

[Scootaloo]

4. Sad that it had to be the condo-lined wasteland of Gulf Shores

The one thing I miss about the south is regular visits to Dauphin Island.

[elehhhhna]

5. sad b/c if you only see one ocean one t i me,

It should be the Caribbean

[Scootaloo]

6. Pacific Ocean, either Oregon or North Cali

[elehhhhna]

8. north end of seven mile beach, grand cayman

[boston bean]

11. The national seashore on Cape Cod

Nauset Beach in Orleans is my pick. Not a condo in sight, see nothing but beach and ocean for miles, forward, left, right, and looking back grassy dunes.

pristine.

Thank you President Kennedy.

[WinkyDink]

13. That's a sea, not an ocean. Hence its name. Just like we don't say "Mediterranean Ocean."

[elehhhhna]

16. dude idc its all salt water to me!

[malaise]

7. That is so lovely

I had to shake my head about the things we take for granted - damn I've had a wonderful life so far.

[elehhhhna]

9. yep. same here.

[Botany]

10. “We don’t have nothing like this in Giles County.”

[WinkyDink]

12. If I'd waited a century to see the OCEAN, and somebody took me to a GULF, I'd be mighty p.o'ed!

PLEASE don't give me the "It's all one ocean, anyway" response.

We don't call the Gulf of Suez "the ocean."
We don't call the Persian Gulf "the ocean."

Do people not know what oceans are, anymore?!

"The surface of the planet is approximately 71% water and contains (5) five oceans, including the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern.
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/oceans.htm

[kcr]

15. Yes, most people do

The ones who know that gulfs are ocean basins.

[trof]

14. Gulf Shores, Alabama. Just down the road from me.

[KMOD]

17. awwww, so very happy for Ruby Holt.

Sweet story, thanks for posting.