We were going to visit the Korbel Champagne winery yesterday. They're supposed to have a wonderful 50 minute wine cellar tour, some free tasting, and a great delicatessen where you can have a wonderful lunch. I say that we were going to visit them, but we didn't. Instead, we took Jenny in to the Urgent Care in Santa Rosa.

You recall that a few weeks back, we all had a short bout of what we were affectionately referred to as The Casini Crud. It was one of those short lived illnesses that includes sneezing, coughing, and aches and pains that last just a day or two. But everybody that got it had the cough hang on for a week or so longer, including me. But Jenny's cough never seemed to get any better. So we decided that it was better safe than sorry, especially with her history of pneumonia and the planned trip to Lori's next week.

We sat in the waiting room for over an hour and a half, but she was finally seen. Then it only took another hour or so, but she came out of the examination room looking much relieved. She only had a mild case of bronchitis. The doctor even said that it could have been caused, in part, but a pollen unique to this part of the country. Great! Just another reason why we don't like California all that much. Jenny was given some pills and an inhaler, and the doctor assured her that she would feel 100% better within 24 hours. The doctor also said that if she had not come in, she undoubtedly would have come down with pneumonia again.

Well, at about 1:00 or 1:30 today, Jenny said it felt like someone threw a switch on her and she started feeling just great. How's that for forecasting what would happen. That almost exactly 24 hours from when she saw the doctor. She will continue to take her medication and use the inhaler until it's all gone, but it sure is nice to see her feeling well again.

Jenny will leave for Columbus next Tuesday, and Bailey and I will be batching it for 8 days. She'll fly back in the following Wednesday. She'll be flying out of San Francisco, which is a bit of a drag. Everyone around here told us to fly out of either Sacramento or Oakland. But all of the tickets she checked were more expensive out of those other 2 airports, so S.F. it is. She'll fly to Dallas, have a 3 hour layover, and then fly on to Columbus. She's being really smart because she's not taking a lot of clothes with her. She realizes that for almost the entire time she's there, she'll be in Lori's house helping her to recuperate, so why take things she doesn't need. In fact, she expects that she can take everything she needs in one carry-on bag. I'm not betting against her!

I'll keep working my normal shift while she's gone. I might as well, since I wouldn't be doing anything else anyway. I'd love to be there with Lori too, but it's better that it's just Jenny and Lori. I'd probably just get in the way anyway.

We'll keep you all updated on how things are going.