I'm home sick again today.  Can't seem to beat this bug.  Would probably have been fine today if I hadn't come up with the great idea of meeting our friends in Florence for lunch yesterday.  Doesn't sound bad til you consider that Florence is a 4 hour drive away!  We left at 7 am and were home by 11pm.  It was great to see them, Florence is ever lovely and the weather was beautiful, lunch was yummy but I don't know as we'll be doing that again any time soon.  The drive was exhausting especially for GP who did most of it.  Poor guy.  I put him through a lot...  It was a fine little adventure though.  We drove down following the Maritime Alps to the Apennines Mountains that make a spine down Italy.  It was gorgeous.  It has already snowed up in the mountains so we went from grey autumn here to bright snowy winter and down into the warm spring-like sunshine of Tuscany.  I think I got over-tired though because coughed and sneezed all night.  That'll teach me for gallivanting about.

Just realized I never posted this.  Must have been the cold medicine.  Better now!  xxoo me