W.r.t. a visit: for me, afternoons are better. Thus, 11/5 would be preferable. 11/8 would be difficult since I usually have lots of Monday morning meetings. I think Noelle wants to meet her dad. > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 22:05:21 -0700 > > Hi Noelle and Robert, > > To bring you up to date, we have made plans to drive up to Sonoma County, > since the flights were not doable from S.B. thru ideally S.F. to Santa Rosa, > to visit Kim and Romy (whose Birthday is 11/7) from Fri. 11/5 leaving our > home about 9 or 9:30 AM and staying most likely at Romy's newly purchased 1 > story home in Santa Rosa that night, but arriving hopefully for dinner until > Mon. 11/8 leaving after breakfast staying with Kim in Healdsburg on 11/6 and > 11/7. Because they both are presently in Maine to attend a family wedding on > Dave Stare's side, I won't know until later what time Romy wants us to > arrive. Thus, I don't know yet whether we can stop in where-I-live to visit with > you on our way up if we have enough time or whether we will instead stop on > our way back to visit you on 11/8. > > Please let us know very soon whether you are able to visit with us for a > relatively short time either on 11/5 or on 11/8 so that we have a break from > our driving. As soon as I hear back from Kim and Romy when they return from > Maine, I will let you know more details. > > The other thing is that we are going to spend Thanksgiving flying to Dallas > airport to visit with my younger sister and her husband leaving SB on Wed. > 11/24 and returning we don't know yet exactly sometime between 11/11/26 or > 11/27 and Mon. 11/29. Therefore, we hope you will have some other fun > options to spend Thanksgiving. > > We are trying to take advantage of seeing family while we can before we get > Don's MCI testing results on 11/17 which will show his updated diagnosis and > prognosis, etc. 11/17 was the earliest we could get that appointment after > having seen his neurologist some time ago earlier this Fall. At that > appointment Don wasn't able to answer most of the doctor's questions > including what the date was that day, so it was quite evident that his MCI > had progressed quite a lot since about 2 years ago, especially since this > past August. During Thanksgiving, Kim and family will be in Montana so, > couldn't see them then. The weekend of Romy's birthday appeared to be the > only time to be able to see them anytime soon regarding their schedule. > > I look forward to receiving your reply soon. > > Best Wishes, > > Gail