This is one of those blog posts that had to be revived from the dead, as it never existed until mid-2022 when I recognized a lone directory of only eight images.

It was late morning / early lunchtime on a Friday when we showed up at the San Pedro Fish Market in southern California.

Apparently, we were trying to beat the crowds, and from the time of day that I took these photos, we obviously spent the night before in California, but I have no supporting documentation nor any photos following that showed what we might have been doing over here on the weekend. I can surmise that we were visiting family in Santa Barbara, but I’m not certain. With my great aunt Eleanor having passed and the family gathering around her in the previous days, combined with a faint memory that my mother-in-law was starting to suffer from the Arizona heat of summer, we may have just cut things short and sent Jutta home early. Whatever the sequence of events was, they are lost in time, other than we feasted next to the sea this particular Friday morning.

Update: I found Jutta’s original flight info that showed her returning to Germany on July 10th, but Caroline and I ended up traveling over the 4th of July, and Jutta was definitely not with us on that trip, which means she’d already gone home.