A Sad Day

Early last week I was looking forward to enjoying today as I was expecting it to be a lazy day at home with the wife and kids at work and school. It's a public holiday in ACT but not in NSW so I had the day off but my wife and kids were meant to be at work and school.
As it turns out, life had other plans for us today and we all attended my wife's Nan's funeral. It was held in the little town with a population of 300, it's where she'd live most of her life, in fact I think it was all of it apart from the last couple of years where she'd been living in a nursing home closer to her son, my wife's father. It takes a couple of hours to drive there and the scenery is always nice, it's just a shame that we were there for a funeral and not a holiday. 
The service was nice and was held in a tiny little church on the outskirts of the town. Funerals are never fun but they can be nice and everyone knows what's happening and they can respect each other. The grave side service was freezing cold, the forecast was for 8°C and there was a chance of snow, I'm not sure what the actual temperature was but it was cold and the wind-chill made it even colder. Wakes can be a little awkward at times and this one was no exception. There were a lot of people who don't really know each other well trying to make small talk. Some groups got a little rowdy wanted to make it a bit of a party whilst others just wanted to have a quiet cup of tea or coffee and reminisce.
Being somewhat of an outsider to the family, I basically kept to myself and made sure that my wife was looked after and tried to make sure that the kids behaved themselves. They'd only attended one other funeral and that was several years ago when my Mum passed away. They had a few questions but were generally well behaved. I guess it can be a little confronting when you are young, I didn't attend a funeral until I was a teenager and although one of my grandparents passed away when I would have been around 12 or so.

Bomber
One day we'll be able to live forever.