Re: From Gail re: our Oct. trip North and Thanksgiving (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > To: "Noelle" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:44:39 -0700
 >
 > Hi Noelle and Robert,
 >
 > Please let us know as soon as you know your plans as to which would be the
 > most convenient for you to have us visit you either mid-afternoon on Fri.
 > 10/19 or for lunch on Mon. 10/22. In the meantime we will find out what Noah
 > and Tracy prefer regarding those 2 days.

I could plan on working at home on 10/19.  Usually, I cannot work from
home on Mondays since my work has a meeting on those days.

 > Additionally would you both like to come here to celebrate the Thanksgiving
 > Holiday and stay in our guest room queen sized hideabed with its relatively
 > new mattress or nearby hotel if you prefer? That would be arriving here on
 > Thurs. 11/22 Thanksgiving Day in time for Thanksgiving dinner or a little
 > earlier that day and leaving Sun. 11/25.

I am available.

I should also be available at x-mas as well.

 > I am having cataract surgery on
 > Tues. 11/27. If you would like to spend Thanksgiving Holiday with us here
 > this year, we just found out that our SB Symphony is having a special
 > Holiday concert at 8 PM on Sat. 11/24 if you would like to attend with us.
 > Let us know, and we can order the tickets. We don't know the price yet which
 > probably depends on where we sit in the Granada Theater.
 >
 > It doesn't look likely that we will be able to get together with any of my
 > family for that Holiday then. If you can't come then, we have ski friends
 > who have invited us to have Thanksgiving dinner with them, so we won't be
 > alone then.
 >
 > Please let us know which is more convenient for you (and I just sent an
 > email to my nephew, Noah Hugenberger, and his wife, Tracy who live in
 > Burlingame to see which would be more convenient with them). We could leave
 > about 9:30 AM after breakfast from here on Fri. 10/19 driving North and stop
 > at a fast food restaurant for lunch and arrive at your home in where-I-live
 > about 3 PM or sometime that mid-afternoon for a short visit with you such as
 > go somewhere for a mid-afternoon snack before we continue our drive to
 > Cotati where we will be spending the night with my younger daughter, Romy,
 > to see her new home there. We might try to arrive in time to take her out to
 > a restaurant dinner for an early birthday gift as we will be in Morocco
 > during her actual birthday. After breakfast at her home on Sat. 10/20 we are
 > to drive straight to Healdsburg to attend a Dry Creek Vineyard event from 10
 > or 11 AM until 2 PM. Don Wallace (Kim's husband) will be leading us on a
 > hike of their Endeavor Vineyard with their winemaker with a picnic lunch
 > there. Kim will be out of town until late that Sat. 10/20 eve. The rest of
 > that day we will either continue to visit with Don W. or visit with my
 > granddaughter, Taylor, and her boyfriend, Dylan, at their new rental home in
 > Santa Rosa or have the early birthday dinner with Romy that night instead of
 > Fri. We will then visit with Kim and Don W. on Sun. 10/21 having spent the
 > night at their home Sat. 10/20 and Sun. 10/21. After breakfast there we will
 > leave on Mon. 10/22 to drive home and either stop on the way and visit with
 > Noah and Tracy and their young son, Adam, or you depending upon when is most
 > convenient with them for us to see them on Mon. 10/22 or Fri. 10/19 and when
 > is most convenient with you for us to visit with you on either of those 2
 > days.
 >
 > We look forward to your reply fairly soon so that we can make our plans.
 >
 > Love,
 >
 > Gail
 >
 > P. S. We don't know yet what we will be doing for the Christmas Holiday nor
 > does the rest of my family know what their definite plans are for then. We
 > do have reservations to go with Encina Royale by bus on Dec. 11 and 12 to
 > Riverside staying at the Mission Inn and Spa to see the annual Festival of
 > Lights. We are possibly considering going with Encina Royale also (if we
 > like the people we meet on 12/11-12/12) for a New Year's cruise from
 > 12/29-1/5 from San Pedro port to Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, and
 > Mazatlan (none of which I've been to before) which we would consider our way
 > of celebrating New Year's Eve and Don's Birthday (and possibly Christmas if
 > we don't get together with anyone then).