The Big Dinner

The last official event of the weekend -- dinner at Villa Portofino. Here we all are (well, except the photographer :-), and in the back you can see the beautiful drawings that the lovely and talented Julia created, depicting the happy couple in times gone past.


Happy anniversary, Gene and Chuck !

The anniversary cake, also arranged by Julia...





The obligatory weird picture of one of the Renda boys...


A closer look at the drawing ... love the hat!

More Family Photos

Before dinner, there was more family photo taking...

The couple of honor....


Some photos are weirder than others...

especially those with Nick and Alex in them.


Grandma Gene...


The Renda-Schwertley clan:



And just so he doesn't feel left out....

Family Pictures

We gathered on the 6th floor deck to take official family photos.

While waiting, guess what Tom is doing?


Time to practice the picture taking...


OK, now everyone, get in place...

and here they are, the Renda clan.


Time for a different arrangement... but what is Katherine doing?


And once again, the Renda Clan !


Hmmm. Some hangers-on have strayed into the middle of the picture.

The Dive

Only one of us was energetic enough to do something active on this trip... the rest of us sat around and watched him...

Greg and his dive buddy approach the dive site... the only time one of us actually rode in a golf cart.



Amazingly, Tom is not playing with his BlackBerry.


The other Rendas wait as Greg suits up...

A view of the other side...

And a nice happy family picture.

Dive equipment, all ready to be put on.

And Greg is ready for his adventure.

A dive site where you stand in line on the stairs to get in...

and it is finally their turn.

Entering the briny deeps...

A friendly wave before submersion.

After Lunch

After lunch on the pier, we wandered around. Nick wandered in some very stylish shoes...

Some of us had chocolate dipped bananas for dessert.

This is the cutest little garbage truck I've ever seen...


Alex being tortured....

Obligatory picture posing...

What a surprise... look what Tom is doing.


Cool Catalina tiles:

Lunch on the Pier

We had to have fish and chips at least once on this trip....



Jeff and Julia wait patiently for their food.


The guy in the goofy hat has his food.


The guys wait for their food to be ready...



Yummy yummy!
The whole happy crew with their fish and chips...


This is *not* something you want to look up and see !