Every family has a "crazy aunt". Sweet Wife's passed away over a month ago, there was a funeral... and today a memorial service. Right in the middle of a long weekend vacation we had planned for a year.
So I have decreed that when I am called to eternal rest there will be a funeral. And if you can't make it, that's OK because I won't be there either.
But I'm NOT going to mess up a good camping weekend for everyone by having a memorial service. Which I also will gloriously be absent from.
This weekend is a reunion of old friends from the 60's and 70's Christian youth group I was involved in. We usually take the 5th wheel and make a 4 day weekend of it. I'm in charge of the thing so I need to be there. I guess I have a choice, gather with great friends in a state park and have a low country boil... or spend the day with in-laws that barely know my name and talk about dead people.