It's now Saturday evening and I've lived many life experiences since my last entry on Wednesday. I got in the car and headed up to New England. in order to avoid the DC traffic area, we took a long, long detour thru Pennsylvania. It killed our ETA but we had a great spontaneous moment. As we were traveling on my birthday, and because I still this many years later hold high expectations for my birthday, I thought it would be a great idea to stop in amish country and get a nice amish meal. Only problem was that we were 5 minutes away from multiple towns and restaurants closing. We struck out and ended up catching a "Five Guys" at 9:45.
Because we were still only in York at 10 PM we chose to abort our plan to go directly to Massachusetts and stop in Lancaster for the evening. We ended up at Willow Valley Resort and enjoyed a great time in the country while my husband worked....
in the evening of the next night we headed up to NJ to pay our respects at the calling hours to our friends. Calling hours are a mixed bag of complete grief and sadness and sympathy for those that you love standing in long lines receiving condolences from others and joy at seeing others that you may not have seen for 10 or 20 years. I saw many people, highly loved and cherished friends that I've lost track of for many years.
At the calling hours they displayed images of my friend. The value of professional images was not lost on me at that moment. It seems morbid to say that we want to document our images every few years in case someone dies, but when someone does go, how nice it is to have those images. I have a renewed passion for what I do.
Today was the memorial service. Tears were shed, laughter was shared and some very special memories were recounted.
So, I'm up in Massachusetts now, looking forward to going to the Cape tomorrow for some fun in the sun and R and R.
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