Today was my grandpa's memorial service. He died on Saturday. It was a very nice service and there were lots of friends there. I played my saxophone for about 10 minutes before the service started and then Tim and Kerry played/sang "When I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton. It was very good and very well done.
The minister was very good and his message was simple and nice. Near the end there was supposed to be a video slideshow of photos from my grandpa's life. The staff at the chapel didn't know what they were doing and the video took forever to start. We were all worried that it wouldn't play and that we had done all that work for nothing- because it did take several hours to compile and then scan all those photos. It finally got going and was very nice. Well, at the end there was supposed to be a recording of my grandpa and grandma's song, which also didn't work and we never did hear that. The staff told us they didn't know what went wrong, blah, blah. It was fitting of grandpa though, as I reminded my mom, he would have asked for his money back.
Anyway, there were a few technical glitches, but all in all it was very, very nice and it reminded us what good friends and family we have.
