Heartbreaking photos show basketball legend Kobe Bryant enjoying a family trip to Disneyland just a few weeks before the tragic helicopter crash that killed him and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.
Kobe, 41, and wife Vanessa, 37, were pictured with Gianna and two of their other daughters, Natalia, 17, and Bianka, four, as they soaked up the atmosphere at the theme park.
Their fourth daughter Capri was just four months old at the time and didn't join them on the day trip in October.
Indeed, Kobe took Vanessa there on November 28 to celebrate when they first met 20 years ago.
He posted a moving tribute on Instagram saying: 'On this day 20 years ago I met my best friend, my Queen @vanessabryant.
'I decided to take her on a date to Disneyland tonight to celebrate old school style (pre 4princesses).'
He met Vanessa in 1999 when she 17 and was working as a background model on a music video and they got engaged six months later and they got married in 2001.
The former Los Angeles Lakers star and Gianna, also a keen basketball player, had been on their way to the Mamba Academy for basketball practice when the chopper crashed at around 9.30am on Sunday.
They died along with all seven others on board as the S-76 Sikorsky helicopter encountered thick fog and crashed into hills of Las Virgenes Canyon, which is home to celebrities including the Kardashians.
Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Kerry, and their daughter Alyssa were also among the dead.
The flying conditions had been poor and the LAPD had decided to ground all its own choppers due to the fog.
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