Marcela just called with the latest update: the bridal shower is being postponed.  Of course that means that Sally and I will not be traveling there next week.  The good news is that Elena's illness turned out to be intestinal rather than respiratory, which is good (though it's only been a week since she was at the event in Vegas so she could easily have been exposed to the virus and just not know it yet) and, even better, as of today she seems to be feeling better and over the worst of whatever it was.

Not sure when Alex will be home - 

and naturally we hope he isn't bringing "anything" back with him...

Off to the gym - and think I'll wear some of my disposable plastic gloves so I'm not touching all those metal surfaces on the machines, because it seems that the virus can hang out for a days and days...