Bless Your Heart

I had a busy weekend that would make for lots of fun posts and I took tons of photos to accompany them. But then I got the call this morning that my Uncle Adonis passed away last night. I’m shocked. I know he had cancer. But he just found out about it like 6 weeks ago. And he was one of the good ones. I’m sure some of you are thinking “but he’s just an uncle”. But he was so much more than that.
He bought the skating rink from my parents when I was 3. We moved from Florida to the Carolinas, but just about every summer I’d go spend the summer in my hometown and spend every chance I got at the rink. Then when I was 13 I started working there over the summer. I’d be at that rink with Uncle Adonis from 8:30 am to past midnight every night. Growing up, I spent more time with him than my own father. And he was a great man to spend time with. He taught me how to walk on my toes (curling them under- if I did that now I’d break them all!), he taught me to play the spoons, to mix music in the dj booth at the rink, to speak some Greek phrases, to drive. When I was 10 we went to Greece to meet his extended family. When I was 3 I was in his wedding to my Aunt. He has 2 children, my cousins who are in their late twenties. It breaks my heart that he won’t be able to walk my cousin Chanel down the aisle at her wedding. We kept in touch and he loved the pug pictures, covering his fridge with them and pics of my nephews. When Sara and I visited him at the rink last summer he just lit up when he saw Jake and toured him all around. It kills me that he didn’t have a chance to be a grandfather.
He was just the best and I will miss him dearly. Here he is having a great time at the rink.
S’agapo and kali nikta Uncle Adonis.