At 102, Rita Georgeff has already crossed an item off her bucket list. Now, her wish for her 103rd birthday is much simpler. “I reach my birthday, actually,” Georgeff said with a laugh when asked what she wants for her next birthday.
The lifelong resident of Windsor, Ontario’s Sandwich Town neighborhood, turned 102 on August 28. Just days later, on Sept. 1, she fulfilled a wish that had been waiting for years: walking across the newly opened Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit, according to CTV News.
Georgeff had originally hoped to make the walk for her 100th birthday, but delays in the bridge's opening meant she had to wait.
“I wanted to really do this when I was 100 and I had to wait two years to do it,” she told CTV News.
Asked whether the wait had been worth it, Georgeff had a straightforward answer. “It sure is.”
Georgeff's long-awaited birthday walk
The walk was organized by Georgeff's friends, who had been waiting alongside her for the opportunity. “We’ve been waiting for two years. It was planned for her 100th birthday. It got postponed, postponed again,” her friend Gail Bondy said, according to CTV News.
