Reply from Gail and Don re: visit this holiday? (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:01:19 -0800
 > 
 > Hi Lizzie,
 >
 > That would be fine to include your sister, Jenny, when we all get together
 > on Jan. 2. Don says if the weather is good we all can go for a walk/hike at
 > Arroyo Hondo Nature Preserve where he is a naturalist docent so that he can
 > be our guide. That is about a 20 min. drive on Hwy. 101 north of us in the
 > direction of San Francisco towards Gavioto. We are not clear if you are
 > going to be in Santa Barbara County for just the day of Jan. 2 and have to
 > return to LA that eve. or if you are staying with your siblings that whole
 > New Year's weekend in SB County. We are not sure if that vegan restaurant is
 > open for lunch or only for dinner. Don will have to try later to find out.
 >
 > Best,
 >
 > Gail and Don
 >
 > From: Lizzie [http://www.sbcglobal.net/~l]
 > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:51 PM
 > To: Gail
 > Cc: http://www.cox.net/~d8; http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg
 > Subject: Re: Reply from Gail and Don re: visit this holiday?
 >
 > Dear Gail and Don,
 >
 > Thanks very much for your email!  Yes, I do think it would be best to see
 > you over the weekend and January 2 works well for me.  I leave it to you all
 > to decide on the activity.  I love the outdoors of course, perhaps a walk
 > somewhere and we could come up with a plan b in case weather is an issue?
 > I'm up for lunch at a vegan restaurant too.  I could be in Santa Barbara as
 > early as 10 or 11.
 >
 > I'll be seeing all of my sisters and one of my brothers this weekend.  We
 > try and get together twice a year with the kids, at Christmas and once over
 > the summer.  I was of course going to mention my visit with you all and it
 > occurred to me that my sister Jenny might wish to come along so I wanted to
 > let you know about that.
 >
 > I look forward to seeing everyone, and all best wishes for a merry holiday!
 >
 > Lizzie
 >
 > On Dec 16, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Gail <http://www.cox.net/~g3
 > <http://www.cox.net/~g3> > wrote:
 >
 > Hi Lizzie,
 >
 > I'm glad to receive your email as I was going to contact you. I didn't
 > receive a reply back from you regarding our invitation to you both to attend
 > Don's Birthday Dinner Party at our Clubhouse on 1/1/15 New Year's Day. I
 > believe Noelle did mention to us earlier that most likely you were not
 > planning on attending Don's Party on 1/1 but that instead you were going to
 > come up to this area for the weekend of Jan. 2-Jan.4 to visit your family in
 > Carpinteria I believe it is and visit us and Noelle and Robert who will be
 > staying with us from Jan. 1 through Jan. 4. I just needed to know for sure
 > for the RSVP count I have to give the caterer and rental equip. co. on
 > 12/22. It's actually better I think that we see you that weekend instead of
 > Jan. 1 as we can spend more quality time with you (which we look forward to
 > very much) instead of being with about 27 people.
 >
 > Don forgot to put on his calendar about Noelle and Robert and you two coming
 > re: Jan. 2-Jan.4 and signed himself up to do some volunteer work for part of
 > the time on Jan. 3 from 7 AM until 12 noon and Jan. 4 from 10 AM until 2:30
 > PM regarding the Christmas Bird Count and being on the Condor boat to do
 > photo identification which is part of his normal docent volunteer work. It
 > would be best, therefore, if we plan on visiting with you on Fri. Jan. 2
 > when he will be available the whole day and evening.
 >
 > Do you all (including Noelle and Robert) have anything in mind in particular
 > that you would like to do together then so that we can be prepared? We could
 > show you all our photos of our June 2014 trip to Montreal, Belgium, Latvia,
 > and France. We all could also have either lunch or dinner together either at
 > our home or go to a restaurant such as a gourmet vegan one for Robert's
 > sake. Any activity outside would depend upon the weather as we have been
 > having a fair amount of rain lately which we needed very much.
 >
 > We look forward to your reply soon, and in the meantime, we hope you have a
 > wonderful Christmas and New Year's Eve and Day.
 >
 > Very Best Wishes,
 >
 > Gail and Don