today was a huge, long , fun day.. 

Diana and I went out for a quick explore in the morning. It’s been a lot of time working on the camp and fluffy and just needed to get out. We went and saw the man which was fun. They also visited Max at his camp and visited our cousins to see our cousin.

Mid afternoon we all met up again and went as all four of us to the temple. The temple is a part of burning man that is devoted to healing and remembrance. It’s a large wooden structure that’s burnt in the final day of burning man. I go to every year and bring things like stones… This year we brought samstones and a bunch of pictures of Sam, my dad, Diane’s parents, Dylan, Marie and for each hung some pictures and wrote some stuff and thought about them and cried a lot. It was hard and it felt very good. We put all of the pictures n, a picture of Ozzy Osbourne because we knew Sam would like that.

All around us people were doing the same thing for their loved ones. It was very very moving

Sam would have loved burning  Man, but would’ve rolled his eyes about the temple..

But we were there we ran into our cousin Ben, who had pictures of Arnold and Ellen… That was pretty special to run into him just randomly like that with pictures of our common and lovely relatives.

 

Anyway… We walked around and took in the scene. It was both heavy and heartening.

 

I think Gabe even wrote that on a picture of Dylan… “Dylan you would’ve hated this place”…..

The temple was not about remembering our loved ones and friends who had died… It was also a place to make other tributes. Gabe burnt his Darol because he had achieved his goal relating to his degree.

We left feeling good about our visit. We went home and got ready to go out for the night

aroudn. 9 we blinged up and headed out on fluffy.. we styed out until 5 AM.. it was one of the most fun nights I can rememner of my life.. which is say alot. it was so great beign with family. playing with fluffy  meeting people and seeing them enjoy fluffy.. sooooooooooooo fun !!

around 11 pm we went and met up with our friends at the loop . They were still working on their lights and it struggled. I woke up with the idea of using the four par can tflood lights to help them light their piece.. when we got there tonight we saw how well that had worked out. The piece was beautiful. We had several fire spinners, including some neighbors like our friend not a spider. Max also had his staff so it was a beautiful fire show. At one point in the show Claire got up on top of the loop and spun. It was so beautiful.!!

I saw a guy named Chris in the crowd who had also made synchronized rope lights just like mine. It was so fun talking to him.

It was so great to see the loop people enjoying their own work. It was a beautiful piece. And they had managed to be successful against a lot of pushback. I was so happy for them.

From there, we went out to look at art  and dance.. Max and aaron wre djing and they were so good !until about 5 AM

At one point evening we came across a beautiful art car that I’ve seen previous years. It had these really cool snake eyes and what was strange is that my glasses at exactly the same code. I put my glasses on snake and ran into the other guys car I found him… He couldn’t believe that I had the same eyes. It was a really, really fun moment.

We got home about 5 AM to find that Bert and Elizabeth’s camper had been locked. Max and Gabe save the day. Max climbed up on the roof and was able to work open a bathroom vent. Gabe took off almost all clothes and was able to slip in down through the vent and go and open the door. I didn’t get any pictures of that, but I found some posted. I’ll try to figure out where they are and post them.

This was an epic night of the most fun nights I can ever remember in my life.

 

And that’s saying alot 

I really love having my family out here

nite all. nite sam
-me