Hi everybody!

It was time for the annual checkups and physicals the other day, so Lucy and I got up early and made the drive down to San Jose for our doctor appointments. We got there by 8 a.m. so Lucy could have some stuff done in time for her appointment and we just hung out and wandered around the complex waiting for our respective appointments.

Everything turned out fine, we're in good health. Lucy's doctor was interested in the fact that we work at a Tree Houses Hotel, as was mine. In fact, they seemed more interested in that after they checked us out and pronounced us fit and healthy.

We do have medical insurance down here, but there is a $2,500 deductible per person. (Total cost about $1,800 per year for the two of us.) But we did not use that for this visit. Between the two of us, the total came out to about $215 for the complete exams. For a once-a-year visit, that's not a bad outlay of the moolah.

My doctor, Dr. Gomez, went to medical school in Costa Rica and had training at Northeastern, Mount Sinai and Harvard. Lucy didn't gander at her doc's credentials, but she is Korean and speaks English, Spanish and Korean very well (though we're taking her at her word for her Korean-language skills).

So, no need to head back down to San Jose for another year to get checked out. We could have done it here locally, but the chance to head into the city for the day to hang out was too hard to resist.