Tiny and I were both retailed-out by the first, so we spent most of the weekend engaging in our other favorite activities: Eating breakfast, walking around having complicated conversations while looking at stuff, and snuggling under the covers while talking about boys.
We walked through Volunteer Park to the conservatory to warm up. The conservatory is almost as good as the aquarium in terms of crazy natural occurances, plus it's free and smells like summer. It's been unnaturally sunny, beautiful and freezing in Seattle lately (knock on wood) so the conservatory was bright and extra warm. Somehow this prompted a big conversation about power and the global economy, so we went to the cemetery.
"Ew, we're walking on dead bodies."
"Shit man, they don't care. Look how many of the Spanglers are buried in these 3 plots! That's some effective land management."
The best part of the walk was coming across a headstone that read:
Ellie May Hartfordson
Assasinated by Her Husband
April 1890
Aged 20 years
It was flat and plain white, and very similar to a few others we saw.
"Assassinated. Wow. Why do you think they used Assassinated instead of Murdered?"
"Somebody sounds royally pissed. She was only 20!"
Posted by Sonya at January 5, 2005 09:10 AMIt appears likely that they'll start charging an entrance fee for the conservatory soon.
Posted by: flamingbanjo at January 5, 2005 11:49 AMthat headstone = BEST EVER
my favorite headstone story involves my boyfriend. one night we were watching tv together and he turns to me and goes, 'hey, if i die before you, i want you to do me a favor.'
me: 'okay, what?'
him: 'make sure that on my headstone, beneath my name, they write, 'inventor of the chocolate chip cookie.' that way someday, someone will read it and believe it. '
me: 'DUDE, you can't LIE on your HEADSTONE!!'
him: 'can so!! who says you can't? what are they going to do, sue you? or not honor your wish? you're DEAD, you can't be sued and they HAVE to honor your last wishes!'
me: 'oh snap i am so stealing that idea.'
so now i have vowed to come up with something great and false for my headstone before i die. ASSASINATION may seriously have to be involved now.
Posted by: brooke at January 6, 2005 09:34 AM