As I said in my last blog my girlfriend's dad died last Wed. I talked to her the following night and spent time with her on Friday. During those two days I found out that my girlfriend was doing okay. Her and I talked about what happened and about her and I. She told me that she was not gonna hang her head because she knew that her dad would not want her to. When I brought up her and I she told me that there was nothing to worry about. She said that when she was with me she felt much better and was able to both laugh and smile. I also learned that her dad was a fellow listener of one the popular radio stations in our state. He always requested Hell's Bells by AC/DC. It turns out that the radio station played the song in his memory and had a moment of silence afterwards. Another interesting thing to point out was there was a race last friday at the track where he crashed and over 2,000 dollars was raised to help my girlfriend's family.

Two visitations sessions were held on Monday. I attened both of them at my girlfriend's request. There was a fair amount of people at the first one. At the end of the first session her mother came up to me with a few tears in her eyes and thanked me for being there. She then gave me a hug and told me that he approved. That's when I lost it and started crying myself. After a three hour break the second session started. A lot more people came to this visitation. Inculding a lot of friends and teachers from school. Towards the end of the session my girlfriend informed us that the wooden casket that they painted like her dad's race car was to small so they were having people sign it. I never really knew her dad that well but I signed it. I talked about how I once saw him at where I worked. I continued by writing "I promise I will take care of your daughter." I then started crying because of some of signatures I read. At the end of the session her mom came up to me and said "You got me back." As she was giving me a hug I asked her "what did I do to make you cry?" She told me that she had read what I wrote. I then told her mother "I will take not hurt her daughter."

The next morning was the funeral. I was informed that I was gonna be riding in the limo with my girlfriend's family as well as her two best friends (who are also friends of mine). What I was not prepared for was sitting in the front row at the funeral home. It turned out that it was good that they had a seat for me because of the amount of people that showed up. The entire room was filled. People were going out into the hallway and to the refreshment room. After the priest, my girlfriend, and a few friends of the family spoke we head out to the cemetery. There the funeral continued with a few members of the army (her dad served 2 years) playing taps and then presented the American flag to the family. As the body was lowered into the ground his favorite song was played as the guy who waved the checkered flag from the race track waved the checkered flag.

Today I spent the day with my girlfriend. Things are as good as ever. I told a few people here that she very well could be the one. It's crazy I have never felt this close to someone this early in a relationship, its scary. Her and I have even talked about the fall when I will be at college and niether of us seemed to be to worried. It really helps that I am only 2 hours away.

Now that things have started to calm down I will be coming back here a bit more. There are a few people here I would like to thank. Both Optiow and Zelda for being very supportive about the situation and even talking about it with me It means a lot! I would also like to thank PaperMario and MSU for both asking me how my girlfriend was doing.

Sorry for the long blog. But thanks for taking the time to read it.

Swan