Vacation wrap-up...

Friday, I took patgreene to a hospital ER for chest pains. Then took the kids to the beach, picked up Pat after her release, and then headed home. We were stranded on I-5 when the transmission on our van broke. Eventually tenacious_snail rode to our rescue...

( 4 photos... )

The hard stuff

Today... began the hard stuff. Grieving the loss of a loved one, someone vivacious and thoughtful and loving... but it was good to see examples of how many lives she'd touched. There was an open-casket viewing from 5-8pm. It was... eerie, but they'd done a good job in arranging her. Her daughter Rania wrote a note and put it in next to her. There was a large turnout, drawn from college friends and Parrotheads and their church community and relatives and other friends.

Today's date... it would have been their 17th wedding anniversary today. She was 39. Hard. I saw a few people today that I hadn't seen since their wedding.

After the viewing, the immediate family gathered at a nearby restaurant for dinner... it was good, we could support each other. I had a Cuba Libre for the first time since Spain. And steathily arranged to pick up the check, something I wanted to do to support Coby. Besides being a, er, habit of mine. (wry grin)

Tomorrow... 10am service and interment, then a luncheon at my parents' house.

( 2 photos, no casket... )