Alot has gone down lately; I do have internet now. Ironically I got it on the same day my Grandpa died, so my enthusiasm for the momentous event was sort of dampened there for a while. We had the funeral and everything. Had to go all the way up to Maine for it -___-’ Worst trip ever, and not just because it was for a funeral either. I was uncomfortable the entire plane ride up there. I came to find out later at the hotel that I had a stomach ulcer, and was bleeding internally. I must have been bleeding pretty bad there for awhile, cuz when I had gotten off the plane I almost passed out. My whole face, even my lips, was pure white; my mom was freaking out. I can’t eat any acidic foods anymore. NO MORE PIZZA!!!!!! OR SODA!!! Its killing me XD…not really, I’m pretty much adjusted to the new diet now.
The funeral was sad. 13 of my fifteen cousins were there, as well as all 6 of my grandpa’s kids (my mom, and her brothers and sister). Plus a few of my Grandpa’s brothers were there (he had 13 siblings, and I think we found out that he 6 step brothers). So yeah there was a lot of people there, a lot of tears and memories. One cute thing did happen at the viewing though. My youngest cousin, whose only 5, was trying to hand out tissues to everyone in the same manner one of those boys on the corner used to try and sell you a paper (You know, “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!) XD Well he went up to one of my Grandpa’s brothers and offered him a tissue, and when he took it, my Cousin said, in a matter of fact way, “There good for tears and boogers.” Everyone couldn’t help but crack up XD He’s so cute.
Other crazy stuff happened too. You can’t put 28 people of the same gene pool, in the same hotel and not expect there to be some incidents XD The second day there, my cousin Jessica, who is renowned for her lack of judgment in certain cases, almost set the hotel on fire. Her bother got his shoes ( and ipod & phone) wet after she pushed him in the pool, so Jessica, trying to help, turned on the fire place and set his shoes next to it. She then exited the room leaving the whole set up unattended and when one of my other cousins went into the room to get something, he came running out yelling fire. The whole room was filled with smoke, but luckily no actual fire. The cause of the smoke was from my cousin’s shoes melting. The extreme heat melted them so badly that the rubber of the shoes was just goo pooled up against the glass of the fire place. XD We had to buy a scraper to scrap it all off the glass before house keeping came in the next morning. THE FIRE ALARM DIDN’T EVEN GO OFF! XD lucky us (though that’s kinda bad)
There was also the Peanut Lucky Charms war. We went to a restaurant called the ROAD HOUSE, where they give you an endless supply of peanuts, expecting you to throw the shells on the floor. Well needless to say we ended up throwing them at each other. Then someone took a box of peanuts home and put them in my uncle Chris’ pillow case. Then my uncle put the peanuts in the suit cases of his assailants (my cousins XD). Then my cousins Lucky Charmed his car XD Yep, good old family. I enjoyed seeing them all though.
That’s one good thing that came out of all this, everyone got to see everybody. Thats one thing my Grandpa always wanted, a family reunion, and in a way he got it ^^