When family comes to town

This is one of the cars my brother-in-law got to drive us around to the wineries.
This is the inside of Frogs Leap winery in Napa Valley CA.


Hi All, Here are a few pictures of this week's journey.My sister and Brother-in-law came to visit us this week. They have been to the wine country several times before and knew exactly where to take us. We really had a great time with my family. It's kind of hard out on the road, as you can imagine, only getting phone calls and not seeing anyone you know for months at a time. The first time anyone came to visit us was when we were in Phoenix last year. We try to travel through the towns where our family and friends live on our trips from one assignment to another, but it's not the same as seeing them on a regular basis. We had a great time and went to a bunch of wineries as well as a trip on the Napa Valley Wine Train. The wine train was cute, the food was good, and the scenery was beautiful...it's one of those toursty things to do. That's part of the traveling thing, to see all the places you want and to send a piece back to the people you know. Adding the pictures was a lot easier than I thought, so you can look forward to lots more pictures in the future.
As far as work goes, it's been slowing down. They say the summertime here brings a low census and it has slowed some. I worry about having my contract cancelled due to the low census, I haven't had it happen to me but it could. This week and last week I only worked my 3 twelve hour shifts so it was like a vacation. I have been working 4 twelves for about year now. Once you train your self, it's not hard to do. Some of the people I work with do 5 and 6 twelves a week, not every week but most weeks. That's too much for these old bones...makes me tired just thinking about it. It would make me too cranky too, I think, but the checks would be great!!! Nothing else exciting to talk about as far as work goes...we'll see what happens over the weekend. Wish me luck! Have a great weekend yourselves!!!!