We’re figuring this out… After an excellent night’s sleep, we felt much more relaxed and refreshed this morning and decided that it would be fine just to veg a bit. I enjoyed the loop walk again this am. It is much cooler at 7:30 am than it is at 11 Read more…
And so we are free! It turns out that even as we developed some skills in quaran-time — e.g. we can amass many steps in a very small area, we can be (mostly) kind to each other even when there is no place to escape to, we can pay attention Read more…
Safely in Whangarei after a much longer day than planned. Arrived here about 8:30 pm instead of the planned 5 pm. Didn’t even leave Auckland until 5 and still had a three hour drive. Eating a late dinner. More tomorrow. (posted about 9:30 PM Jan 14 NZ time)
We are in the sign-out process of Managed Isolation! Health staff sign off is complete. We should be on a bus to the airport in about 30 minutes. Then a flight to Auckland and drive to Whangarei. Long day, but isolation is safely complete! More later! (about 9:30 am NZ Read more…
We are zipping through Quaran-Time! Only 3 days to go! Today we get an extra hour of outside time. We are not sure what happened to the yellow bands, but blue bands (us) get to walk from 2-7 pm at least for today! Very happy about this even though it’s Read more…
Today is gorgeous. Sunny, mid 70s, gentle breeze. Notice that the bees at the facility are essential workers and are not required to wear masks! We feel that we are on the home stretch! That may be a bit of an overstatement as each lap of our exercise yard is Read more…
Our hearts are breaking for the division, violence and desecration that we saw at the Capitol yesterday. We were glued to the news as we would have been at home. In stolen conversations in the exercise yard yesterday, returnees from the US shared our horror and sadness. No good segue Read more…
But who’s counting.. 24 hours after getting tested, we were notified that we were negative. Yay! Next test is on Day 12. Until then, we get temperature checks every other day and the nicest nurse calling to have a lovely conversation about how we are doing. The lovely conversation could Read more…
Day 3 and 4 (Jan 3 and 4 in NZ) Day 3’s two big events were that we had our first COVID-19 test and we celebrated Jim’s NZ birthday. We should get the COVID results within 48 hours. We are both feeling fine. Next test will be on Day 12. Read more…
Day 1 Happy New Year! We had thought that today was day 2, but that was because we didn’t know that yesterday, the day we arrived, was actually Day 0. There are some counting differences between NZ and the US, not just around ballots and saying naught instead of Read more…