Just five months ago, 15-year-old Amelie Linsey and her brother, Daniel, 19, spent a joyful Christmas holiday in Newport Beach in California as they do every year.
On Friday they will be buried in that coastal town where their father, Matthew, was born.
On Tuesday, parents Matthew and Angelina and brother Ethan, 11, flew to the states to prepare for the funeral while the American Embassy repatriated the bodies.
Amelie and Daniel were killed in a terror attack in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday as they ate breakfast with their father - they were due to fly home later that day.
Amelie (bottom second from right) and David (far left) with their parents Matthew and Angelina, their older brother David (centre) and younger brother Ethan (bottom right) on holiday in Newport California where they used to go each year for Christmas
Daniel, 19, (left) and Amelie, 15, were both killed during a hotel blast on Easter Sunday while eating breakfast with their father Matthew
In Saturday's Mail, their brother, David, spoke with a strength of character beyond his 21 years with his mother, Angelina.
It was the first time she spoken about her devastating loss and she described her children quite simply as 'her best friends.'
The family want to bury Amelie and Daniel, who like their siblings have dual UK and American citizenship, in Newport Beach where they shared so many precious times on their annual Christmas holiday.
David said: 'We have had so many happy times there. It was the town we went every year and it is where my grandmother lived. It is much more peaceful there.
Amelie on Newport Beach in California where the family which go each year for Christmas
'My dad is a bit better, my mum is a little better. I'm very worried about my brother. It is going to be very hard for my parents this week flying out.'
The family wanted to bury their children, who were killed in such a violent act, somewhere they can finally find peace.
This annual holiday to California was a particularly fond time for the family.
David, who like his siblings was raised in his father's Jewish faith fondly remembers dropping his mother, a Catholic, off at church for mass on Christmas day.
'I always remember on Christmas day when the roads were empty, my dad would go down to a parking lot and we would all sit on his lap and take turns moving the steering wheel of the car. We all did it as kids,' David said.
'We never thought that Amelie would not reach the age where she could drive herself. That's the saddest thing for all of us - but saddest for her.'
David, who joins his family in California today, delayed joining them to speak at a conference about tackling extremism.
Hosted by one of Britain's wealthiest businessmen, Malik Karim, David had intended to go to the conference before the terror attack.
Following the death of his siblings, he was determined to address the crowd and speak about his family's fundraising efforts.
He has set up a charity called The Amelie and Daniel Linsey Foundation in memory of his siblings kind and giving spirit.
The Foundation aims to find some humanity following such a terrible act, and raise money for the families of Sri Lankan victims as well as providing surgical training for the hospital where Amelie and Daniel were taken.
'I now realise that I have been given a voice and I believe it is the right thing to do to use this platform to speak
