Home at last (incomplete)

---Updated with photos on July 5, 3h30 PM---

[July 5, 2h30 PM: This is the posting I started on May 19, and I've left it unchanged. Obviously I got interrupted and never got back to it.]


We just got in this afternoon after being up for about 27 straight hours. (Sitting in an airplane seat and trying to sleep doesn't count as resting.) All the connections went well and there were no major problems, the only complication being an oven in the galley of the 757 that wasn't working as we prepared to leave Newark. We sat there for an hour or so while they fixed the problem, and we were glad they took the time to find out whether it was just the oven that had electrical problems, and not some of the navigational circuits.


We stayed one night at Joy and Mark's, and they went with us on Friday. Mia offered to drive home.

They'll be here Friday, after spending a week in the UK.

Braewyn

Rachel and Braewyn flew in Sunday night and were present for the funeral Monday morning. They had to leave early Tuesday morning like we did. We really didn't get to see them much.


Abbie (in white jacket), with her sisters and father.

It was good that all the sisters could be together, but Dad kept having to ask each one who they are

[That's where it ended. Joy and Mark did come--a picture or two from that visit to follow. As for Abbie's dad, we would like to think he's dealing with the situation better by now. Still has memory problems, of course. Our son Jeff spent a week with Grandpa, while Uncle Ben was away. Jeff got his grandfather to help weed the flowerbeds and he bought hanging baskets of flowers for the front porch. Abbie's dad told a visitor, "That man (referring to Jeff) makes me work! And sometimes I don't even remember who he is!"]