1. The musical flowers were mentioned - I was totally waiting for the Tournament of Roses Parade to come down the damn aisle. Why else would you be hauling them around? Seemed like an MIL thing to do.
2. All I could think on the way up was, "How is MIL going to thunderjack this funeral? 'Cause she just totally is." I was really waiting for her to do some crazy shite like throw herself on the casket, but I guess beaming like she just won Miss America was good enough.
3. At one point I thought the place smelled like taco salad, which made me think of Taco Bell, which made me lol a little. L&R thought it smelled like chinese food. Then Hooka thought it smelled like rotten mints. All I can say is, if there was goat in the basement, I hope WonderH didn't have to go pick the damn thing up.
4. Life Lesson: Do not let Mr. Bliz and Hooka sit together. EVER.
5. WonderH is amazing, totally amazing. Not only did he recognize us from our pictures, he gave us hugs. I don't know how he wasn't a puddle of goo. WonderDad was almost more amazing. He talked about what her last couple weeks were like and told us that he wanted us to know she was well taken care of, and that she knew we were all there for her. That's where I about lost it completely. I think although we all *knew* that, but it was exactly what I needed to hear.
6. Her sister is so beautiful and looks so much like her. She was a mess. I thnk we all wanted to go up and hug her, but that would have been weird from us interwebz stalkers.
7. OMG, there were a bunch of people there we totally recognized from various stories. SO HARD NOT TO POINT AND LAUGH.
8. I could practically feel Ww rolling her eyes from the afterlife at the off-key singers (was it mentioned below that one of them showed up twenty minutes into the ceremony? Dude, you can't waltz into the middle of a funeral, climb up to sit behind the person speaking, and expect NOT to be noticed. DUR.). I'm fairly the singers were MIL's doing, and she probably loved them.
9. All day I kept thinking to myself that Ww was going to love this story when we told it. It's like, I know she's gone, but somehow I still expect her to be here.
10. It was so good to know that all ya'll were thinking of her, wearing purple, and listening to Prince all day. Just thinking about it made the whole thing a little bit easier to me--like we were all kind of together, in a way.