I went to my local guilds show this past weekend and we brought a wheelchair with us. I used it for a short time and my friend, who had a knee replacement in Feb used it most of the time. I am borrowing the chair to go to Disneyland on Monday because I cannot walk. I have a torn meniscus and am scheduled for surgery on the 25th
That being said, I have a quilt run coming up on the first weekend in June. I am pretty sure that I will not be able to make it. It is much harder to get in and out of a car and 13 quilt shops than to just go somewhere and stay.
It gives you a new perspective to be in a wheel chair, I was in one to go to Sea Word last month and like I said, gives you a new perspective. If your friends are willing to help push you around I say go. You can probably get out of the chair to see close ups for short spurts of standing and walking. It's the being on your feet and walking all day that I cannot do.