After much discussion, we have decided to wait to go to Minnesota until after the holidays. Of course, it wasn't totally up to us; we are still waiting for insurance authorization. Even if they were to approve Torie's transplant tomorrow, the earliest we could start pre-transplant work-up would be Wednesday, and that's if they were able to schedule all gazillion docs in that short time. We are now woking on starting January 4th. Mom and Torie and I will leave here New Year's Day. Hopefully Mother Nature has gotten a few storms out of her system by then!