Our Visit To Our Buddy Pam...and Skeeter!

[ReachTheStars]

HEY GUYS! Just got back from my Iowa trip to go see Pam's grave and her dad Skeeter...It was awesome...Pam's Headstone is in now. So we all wanted to go and check it out. Let me just say...OH MY GOD!!! It is GORGEOUS!! (Just like our buddy was!! ) I bought two roses, one for Janet and one for me...to put on her grave. There are two vases, one at each end of the headstone...so you can put a single rose in or a bunch of flowers in it...just a really awesome stone. ;D

Couldn't wait to give our Skeeter buddy a visit too!! He is sooo cute!! I just adore that man to bits!! and
Yvette?? YOU DID US PROUD HONEY!! That picture is INCREDIBLE OF PAM!! She looks sooo BEAUTIFUL..right on that headstone...there she is!!

The picture is encased in glass just like a CAMEO... I took pics...they will be posted in the Photos section soon....It is black onyx and the kind of headstone that is upright and standing baby...not no flat plate piece of iron man...this Cemetery ROCKS!!! ;D and what is so cool too??...is Skeeter can look right out his back door and see his two girls ....Marge his wife, and Pam is daughter. Just an amazing view...the headstones are up on a hill and Skeeter's house is set below....so when you walk out into the back...you look up...and there they are...just beautiful.

We all had an awesome, awesome weekend together too!! Just so good to "FEEL DA LOVE" from fellow buddies...it was THE BEST!! Was one helluva emotional one...I'll tell ya though!! Goin' to that cemetery and seeing her grave?? Seeing how beautiful the headstone was...and then seeing her picture on it.. AND Boy...holding back those tears??? H E L L O?? MAN did that ever take SOME WORK!!! It's been since March ..(she passed away the 12th). So...It's been seven months already. But I totally lost it when Yvonne showed me her room...there ya go..walking into her room...and SHE WAS ALL AROUND YOU!! Cher stuff everywhere...Pam's Artwork...her words...her things...BOOM! All around you..I TOTALLY LOST IT.. Yvonne wanted me to have some things of Pam's...so she was taking down a poster...and I just Burst INto Tears...Bawlin' like a Baby!! IT WAS SOOO OVERWHELMING and SOOO SAD...O M G!!

But I am sooo sooo grateful to Yvonne and Skeeter for giving me some of Pam's things. They mean the world to me and I will absolutley treasure them! I got some of Pam's incredible artwork...on a jean jacket....that is just BEAUTIFUL!! Got my buddy's Drum Head that he sent to her...that said "Dearest Pam, KEEP ROCKIN' BABY!"...Mark Schulman..." That's our guy...HE ROCKS MY WORLD...and a CHER HEAD!! LOL...(Got a story there for ya...hehehe)

But the weather was INCREDIBLE!! SUN SHININ' BRIGHT!! BREATHTAKING FALL COLORS...THE LEAVES WERE JUST BEAUTIFUL!! We couldn't have asked for a better weekend...PICTURE PERFECT BABY!! THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE BEST TIME EVER!! and a very special thanks to you YVONNE and SKEETER for just being the best people you'd ever want to meet! LOVE YOU GUYS!! So honored to be your friend!! MWAH!!

Ok...so now to the CHER HEAD STORY...this thing by the way, is too COOL GUYS!! OMG!! and the story I have to share...is too funny. I got Pam's large Doll Cher Head that was sitting on her dresser...it is AWESOME!! I loved it the minute I set eyes on it!! It was the first thing I saw...it reminded me sooooooo much of Pam! OMG!! But My Cool Fellow Hippie Buddy put an awesome INDIAN type of beaded head band around her head...and when you looked at it? IT SCREAMED HALF BREED BABY! Had to have it...so home she went with me!! Got it home late that night...put it on my kitchen counter..and left it there for the night. Wanted to clean it up the next morning when I got up...

So morning time comes...I get up...go downstairs...and low and behold...MY CHER HEAD IS TURNED AROUND!! SHE'S NOW FACING THE WALL!!l!! I'm like...WTH?? Who did that?? Hmmmm... So I asked Katie.."Katie? Do you know who turned my Cher Head around?" and she said "I DID MOM...SHE SCARED ME!!!" ...LMAO ;D OMG! I was howlin' I was laughing so hard...poor babe, it scared her...so she had to turn her....too funny...

So there Cher sits...in all her glory...right on my kitchen counter ...anxiously awaiting to be cleaned...facing everyone that walks in my front door!! LMAO..Man, that'd be cool if she talked...wouldn't it?? OR BETTER YET...SANG!! Especially now...at Halloween...Very, Very Cool...I sent Susan a pic of it....

So everyone is home safe and sound...all is good with her dad, Skeeter. Cuter than ever and our buddy Pam has got her headstone on her grave...REST IN PEACE GIRL....WE SURE DO MISS YOU! MWAH!! LOVE YOU ALWAYS!!!

[Susanelizabeth28]

So glad you had good weather for the visit! I'm downloading some of the photos now and will finish when I get back tonight (I'm on the turtle network otherwise known as earthlink's dial up) Can't wait to see these photos!
I was thinking the other day, it doesn't seem like seven months. There are different times when I almost go to email Pam with an "oh, she would love THIS bit of information" Definitely too young.
I promise you guys, I will definitely get the photos uploaded tonight! Thanks so much for emailing them, Di!
Susan

[Jan]

Thx so much again Di and also thanks for all the cher Iowa connections.. Was too fun! LOL..And Skeeter..he ROCKS! I know PAM KNOWS u guys were there!!!!!!!!!) Sheri sent Janet C the Pam DVD that Tim made..did Skeeter see it yet? If not maybe on her next trip up she can bring it along..I know he'd love that and Yvonne and the girls too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to have the Cher head before I hadda sell mine..But I'll never forget when I got it..lordy the head DETACHED..was too hilarious at the time..let's just say I was not home at the time either..in airport..friggin head went a rolling! LOL>..Ppl were like OMG is that umm CHER? LOL>>>>was kinda funny! I think if that was on video Cher herself would be peeing in her pants! LOL ..WE LOVE YA PAM BUDDY! KEEP A ROCKIN IN CHERUNIVERSE!

[BostonQ]

DI: Glad you made it home safe and sound, and I can't wait to see your pix! It was great chatting on the phone with you for a bit on Sunday...

LOL about your Cher Head story!!! OMG, that was soooo funny!!!!!

[Susanelizabeth28]

Here are the photos. They are beautiful Di, thanks so much for sending them.
photobucket.com/albums/v125/Cherconnection/PamsMemorial/

[ReachTheStars]

Thanks Guys!! YOU ROCK!! Dann it was great talking to you buddy..can't wait to finally meet you in November!!

Susan thanks so much for downloading the pics for me and your great e-mail!! It was so good hearing from you girl...

AND OMG Janet..I d**n NEAR PEED MY PANTS reading your post about your CHER HEAD ROLLING IN THE AIRPORT!! It detaches too? OMG!! I'm dyin' here!! Too freakin' funny girl!! I am cryin' I'm laughing so hard...Cuz I can just see you!! Screaming out "HEY!! WILL SOMEONE CATCH THAT HEAD!!""

[Lisa]

Very nice and thoughtful Di, thanks..

[DEE]

Di thanks so much for the pictures. Just love that head stone, it is so nice...just like Pam. The Jacket is just absolutely gorgeous! I loved the work that Pam did...can't believe it has been 7 months already. Glad to hear that her dad is doing ok, had to be soooo hard on him. Parents are not suppose to bury their kids.
Jan, would have loved to see the peoples faces with Cher's head rolling around the airport! Had to be a riot!
DEE

[Jan]

No Di it' s not supp to detach but some jerk security guy was chuckin around stuff at the airport..I thought it was intact..NOT..poor head went flying...I zoomed and left all my garbage bags and all and headed for the head..I was like LOOKOUT CHER HEAD! LOL..ppl were like OMG that really IS Cher! LOL..was funny..one time at MSG I lost the Cher doll Shoe too when I brought the Cher doll to a show..now when I bring her I leave the shoes home ! LOL. Cos once at MSG the shoe fell off in the dark so when lights went up I was like "NOBODY MOVE OR BREATHE MY CHER SHOE IS MISSING! LOL" Thank god I found it! LOL

[Lisa]

OMG Jan You are a riot.. If I saw that I would LMAO like those darn newspapers in Reading......... ;D

[Jan]

Actually now that I think about it..ummm the Reading papers thing takes the cake my friend! How funny was that! LOL..

[Debelieves]

Thanks for sharing your Iowa trip with us, Di. I'm sure the emotional roller coaster was in high gear the whole time you were there. I only "knew" Pam through this website (although I did talk to her on the phone a few times), wish I'd had the chance to have met her.

That's some story, Jan, about Cher's head rolling through the airport. I can just picture the bodies flying left and right as you chased after it!

Deb

[IryokuAtae]

I just saw the pictures. And im still teary eyed. I didnt think it would have that kind of effect on me. Like others have said, I only knew Pam via this website. It's terrible that she's gone. and She is truly missed.