New Zealand
Day 14 – AM
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 Read more
New Zealand
Day 11 – Birds!
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 Read more
New Zealand
Day 10
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 Read more
New Zealand
Day 8
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 Read more
New Zealand
Day 6
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 Read more
New Zealand
Days 3 and 4
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 Read more
New Zealand
Day 1 — Happy New Year!
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 Read more
New Zealand
Kia Ora from Aotearoa!
We made it to NZ! All told it took us 34 hours from Detroit Metro Airport to our Managed Isolation Quarantine hotel. We wore masks the whole time except when eating! And our ears hurt! DTW and LAX were pretty Read more