Mom's funeral and graveside and Corona Del Mar

A lot of flying back and forth went on during October to visit, help with, have the funeral and then lay Mom to rest in California.  We also managed to visit with lots of family and even celebrate Jay's birthday during all of this time.

Aunt Georgia's family put on a lovely luncheon after the graveside in California.  I didn't get many pics at the lunch.  It was so good to see Denny and Gordon's families at both of these places.  We don't see them much, but they are wonderful people.  Mom had a way in life of keeping everyone connected and funerals have a way of doing it after people are gone.  

Paul and I arrived several hours earlier than Janet and Marilynne for the graveside and took the time to go to Corona Del Mar - the beach of my youth and our first date.  It was such a nice chance to just relax amid all of the happenings.  And after it was all over we went to get Paul a new phone (he dropped his in a tide pool at the beach) and then visited the Cheesecake Factory for dinner.  

Paul was trying to take a picture of this little fish when he got his phone in the water at the beach.