Monday August 23rd, 2010

Happy Birthday Lexi

Part 2 of a Mexican funeral

We picked up Christy at her gallery then got to the church shortly before one, We met Dick outside and I went in to say hi to Mary Carmen. We went back outside and coming up the street is the hearse with Lorena and her son holding hands following it along with about 20 of her relatives. After they got to the church they lifted the coffin out of the hearse and they carried it up the stairs onto a table with legs, the American flag was draped on the coffin then Lorena, (his wife) Michelle (his daughter) and Joe (his brother) followed while the coffin was moved to the front of the church.

It was a catholic ceremony all in Spanish of course, but it was beautiful. There were several of us “gringos” at the church and of course we were all crying! After the ceremony they opened the coffin one more time then closed it up put it back in the hearse to go to the crematorium. We went back to the parkade and as we got up above ground again I saw Lorena walking along the sidewalk, she looked so lost, like, what do I do now? It was so sad.

We dropped off Christy at the gallery and drove home, we didn’t do much, Ross left for his meeting, the propane guys came to fill our tank, after Ross got home we went over to Mega for a few groceries.
Now we are just trying to deal with the present, we are going over to Lorena’s tomorrow for part 3 of the funeral.

I am going to try to attach some pictures (last time I tried it didn’t work) of Larry and the service.

Still sad Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise

Ps: I forgot to tell everyone that when we were driving home Sunday we saw a turtle on the highway. We zig zagged around it, and we are sure it got across as there were no cars behind us for a while. Where did He/she come from???