Down Memory Lane in California/a visit with Sister Randall!

 While we were in CA for Aunt Georgia's funeral, we had a little spare time that we used to drive around and check out our old houses, etc.  It was fun!  Some of them took a little bit of looking to find since we weren't quite remembering the exact addresses!  These are  pictures of my family home that I lived in from Kindergarten on and the 3 apartments/houses that we lived in after we got married until we moved to Farmington, NM, about 9 months later.  The big red apartment building was first, the big gray house second and last was the little house.  Paul actually lived in the big red apartment building in a different apartment when he was on his mission!  It wasn't red then.  We also found the old house that was the office where my mom worked.  It had been repurposed to be an office for structural engineers.  She took over as secretary there for Janet when she went off to school in SLC.  Mom was there until she retired.  We also drove down to Fairmont Park and saw the old tank.  They used the lake to test the tanks to make sure they were waterproof!  We also took a picture of the street sign for Wong Street in English and Chinese.  I'm pretty sure that in the old days it was named Wong Way instead of Wong Street!  Ha Ha! 

 

On Friday evening after the funeral gatherings were all over we drove over to Hemet to take Sister Randall (Ellie) and her companion, Sister Gozart, out to dinner.  They got permission to spend an hour with us and it was such a fun time.  She's serving in the Riverside California Mission which is headquartered in the same chapel I grew up attending from Kindergarten on.  One of the local mission presidency members and his wife were actually attending the funeral luncheon that day.  It was crazy to visit the chapel of my childhood and even see people there from the ward helping with the funeral lunch that I remember from way back when I was in that ward.  Ellie got a good recommendation for a place to eat from a ward RS president.  It was really good food and not terribly expensive.  We had a good visit and then took them back to their apartment to go off to do some missionary work.  Such good girls!  So glad Ellie is making such good choices that will bless her life and many others as well.