Ching Ming

Today, we took Mom to the cemetary for Ching Ming. We bought 5 bunches of flowers, one each for Granpa and Grandma, cousin Stephen, Dad and Paul (who's not family but a friend of ours). I still have to do one more trip to my step-Dad's but since Mom can't make it up the hill (really steep) we go on our own. We're not really stick in the mud tradtion followers but pretty much do make the yearly trek (sometimes more) to visit. Mom did very well in walking around, except holding on when walking on slopes.

For more info on Ching Ming:
http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/qingming/qingming.html

Afterwards, we took a trip to Costco, where we got 2 carts. One for her, one for us and Mom had her walker. She did pretty well here, too, only had to stop once to rest. She got quite a bit of food, found some sushi and picked up some crab, her favorite! Well, two crabs! I told her if she got a stomachache after eating all of that, she has no one to blame! LOL!!

I told her about my installation dinner and asked if she would come. Course, her usual answer was, if she felt up to it, she would. So I told her Ted was coming, so maybe she will. We'll see.