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Uncle Don's wake was today. It was from 3-9 but since I had to go with my parents we got there at like 7 and stayed for almost 2 hours. They had him laid out in the coffin but I only went up once, I didn't like seeing him there. There was so many people and almost all were family or at least considered family. They had set up a few boards with a bunch of pictures of Uncle Don throughout his life (I am still trying to get over the fact that he used to have a mustache, which I found out, Tuesday). I stayed around Elizabeth and was talking a lot with Becca and Ray (friends) and Austin (Elizabeth's bf) who had all been there pretty much since it started.
I was fine until Elizabeth started crying,and yeah. But I mean there were stories and laughter. My mom bought whoppers which were Uncle Don's favorite 2 boxes-one went with Uncle Don and the other went in the coffee room so everyone would remember him.
I am never eating cake again though. All of us kids, Me, Elizabeth, Keli, Becca, Ray, Tommy, Mikey, Austin, Kirsten (I think) and Amanda were sitting and talking and Ray comes out and says that he has given serious thought to what he wants to happen when he dies:
he wants to be cremated then have his ashes baked into a cake and he will have a list of people who he wants to eat. Now after that we started discussing what else he could do all just joking-someone wearing him as a costume, sitting him in a chair, in front of the tv with remote in hand and a bunch of other stuff that had us laughing.
Elizabeth comes over-we had just gone back to the whole cake thing and she says- I won't eat you, its cannibalism (Ray-its not, its cake) and we all pee and poop anyways-and we all just crack up cause they way she said it was to funny-and then we start arguing.
Then Elizabeth says you can make diamonds out of the ash-and Ray gets all affronted and says-Oh so you won't eat me, but you'll wear me and everyone says yeah-again that sets us all off.
It became a fun few minutes, then everyone started leaving and...
Tomorrow is the semi funeral that starts at 10:30,and there is going to be a service at the funeral home because the church wouldn't do anything cause its a holy week or something. Then we are going straight to the cemetery and then lunch. Hopefully after that Elizabeth, her mom, Billy and Grandma can finally get some rest because none of them have really slept in days.
I was fine until Elizabeth started crying,and yeah. But I mean there were stories and laughter. My mom bought whoppers which were Uncle Don's favorite 2 boxes-one went with Uncle Don and the other went in the coffee room so everyone would remember him.
I am never eating cake again though. All of us kids, Me, Elizabeth, Keli, Becca, Ray, Tommy, Mikey, Austin, Kirsten (I think) and Amanda were sitting and talking and Ray comes out and says that he has given serious thought to what he wants to happen when he dies:
he wants to be cremated then have his ashes baked into a cake and he will have a list of people who he wants to eat. Now after that we started discussing what else he could do all just joking-someone wearing him as a costume, sitting him in a chair, in front of the tv with remote in hand and a bunch of other stuff that had us laughing.
Elizabeth comes over-we had just gone back to the whole cake thing and she says- I won't eat you, its cannibalism (Ray-its not, its cake) and we all pee and poop anyways-and we all just crack up cause they way she said it was to funny-and then we start arguing.
Then Elizabeth says you can make diamonds out of the ash-and Ray gets all affronted and says-Oh so you won't eat me, but you'll wear me and everyone says yeah-again that sets us all off.
It became a fun few minutes, then everyone started leaving and...
Tomorrow is the semi funeral that starts at 10:30,and there is going to be a service at the funeral home because the church wouldn't do anything cause its a holy week or something. Then we are going straight to the cemetery and then lunch. Hopefully after that Elizabeth, her mom, Billy and Grandma can finally get some rest because none of them have really slept in days.
