We have been getting a lot of questions about Lorelei’s Celebration of Life. So I wanted to do a post and answer a few:
1. Will masks be required? By the venue, no. By the family, yes! Lorelei died due to complications of a common head cold and mitochondrial disease. Please wear a mask to help us protect Benji and other immunocompromised friends.
2. What is the parking situation? There is parking at the Lesner Inn BUT it’s limited. The venue recommends that if you can carpool, PLEASE CARPOOL.
Something to consider, if the parking lot is full you could always park somewhere like the VB Convention Center or a park and taking an Uber. A friend from high school, Lindsey Walker, lives 3.1 miles away from the Lesner Inn. Her address is 2420 Greenwell Road, Virginia Beach VA, 23455. She has volunteered to allow people to park on her land and carpool or Uber (or if you are feeling ambitious I guess you could walk!). Look for her signage if you are parking here. Please park in the RED area of her lot.
3. Can we watch online? Yes. We are still working out the details. It will be a YouTube link. Either way you can find it on the Fridays With Lorelei, Stars For Benji Facebook page. Live streaming will start at 4 but the service starts at 415.
4. Is anyone invited? We know that Lorelei made an impact on so, so many people, so yes. You are invited. However, I politely ask, if you are not friends to the family, you hold back a few minutes (read: do not show up early) to be sure that those who HAVE to be there are able to get in and find parking. Children are also invited but please make sure they are not running everywhere. There will be a lot of people. Please note: this venue does not have an elevator and the party is upstairs.
5. What do I wear? Please, for the love of all things Doodle, do not wear black. We are celebrating this sweet life. Sundresses. Colors. Shorts and polos are ok. Disney shirts. Tie dye optional.
6. Will there be food? Snow cones, cupcakes and light hordourves. We aren’t feeding y’all dinner though. (No one actually asked this but I wanted to be sure y’all didn’t leave me with 300 cupcakes to eat by myself!)
7. Do you need help with anything? At this point we have enough volunteers who have all been informed that they are needed. We appreciate all of your willingness to help us during this time.
8. Will there be a church service or grave side service? We will have a service AT this celebration of life. This is the only shindig we will be hosting.
9. Hotel recommendations? The Lesner Inn is in Virginia Beach. Just north of the Oceanfront area. There are tons of hotels there. We live in Suffolk. If you need to be close to our house, look into hotels in Northern Suffolk, closer to 664.
10. Can I still sign up for the blood drive? Yes! We have a few spots left. Go to the Fridays With Lorelei, Stars for Benji page for more details. Go to https://www.redcrossblood.org/ and in the SPONSOR CODE you put LORELEI. As of 7.17 we have 7 spots left to fill!
11. Will Susan ever sleep again? Probably not. Hence this post at 4AM.