Sunday activities were officially cancelled due to illness in Villa Oswald.  :(   Not sure who came down with it first (maybe it was Stephen from work -or- from Jennifer's visits to the base hospital for her pre-op appointments -or- either of us from braving the cold in the villa or the rain in Firenze), but we both have it.  So no RCIA, no Mass, no grocery shopping, no recycling trip, and (even worse) no cooking club.

Cooking club is a monthly get-together of our American friends here.  The meeting place rotates by who is playing host, as does the theme of the evening/menu.  OCT was tail-gating food to go with the (American) football game we were watching that evening on the Casales' flat screen.  Tonight's theme was to be Thanksgiving favourites &amp; we were bringing green bean casserole &amp; pumpkin squares.  Instead we are bundled up with our Thera-Flu &amp; RC oils in front of the fire.  It sounds warm...but we'd rather be having turkey.

<em>All hopes for a speedy recovery.</em>