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It was a nice, normal Saturday. I took T. to martial arts and then we had breakfast at Vic’s.
F. came over for an in person piano lesson, because everyone is healthy at the same time.
R. went out to a show (10 pm) and saw someone he hasn’t seen in a very long time and they chatted. People were well behaved and there was a good number of people there.
Meanwhile, I have been continuing the conversations with people about vacation planning. I have specific things planned through April, but at the end of January, that’s a really short planning horizon for me. Specifically, we are 11 months-ish away from next winter break. So I started doing points calculations and talked to my sister and we have put together a plan.
Also, I got in touch with my sister S. and we have nailed down a weekend in June for us to go to LegoLand NY with her kids, and with A.
Also, I looked up how many points I transferred from DVC into RCI because I was otherwise going to lose them, and turned a little over half of those points into a long weekend on the Cape next fall.
Having reached an agreement with T. that if, this summer, it is too onerous / worrisome to travel internationally, I started brainstorming possible US road trips. One possibility is to meet my sister at her not-MILs in Michigan and do stuff there, maybe do Hershey on the way over or back, stuff like that. Not looking promising, as the time frame she is going will overlap with the kids’ camp plans.
Then I looked up the current rules for Canada, downloaded ArriveCan and entered passport and vax info for the four of us. This is _probably_ a do-able trip in the summer, but it’s our second choice. Thus, I looked up the current rules for the Netherlands, and, whoooeeee, that is a _lot_. They had a hard lockdown over the winter break. I think my criteria for traveling to Europe may be, when I can enter my info into EUDCC and participate in their “normal” system, I’d be happy to go, but that’s probably not the full list of criteria because I find the thought of a transatlantic flight wearing a mask the whole time to be more than a little daunting. Perhaps I will get over it some time soon. I know other people are capable of this, but the prospect of trying to convince my kids to leave their masks on, and the collective probable grumpiness makes me super uneasy.
F. came over for an in person piano lesson, because everyone is healthy at the same time.
R. went out to a show (10 pm) and saw someone he hasn’t seen in a very long time and they chatted. People were well behaved and there was a good number of people there.
Meanwhile, I have been continuing the conversations with people about vacation planning. I have specific things planned through April, but at the end of January, that’s a really short planning horizon for me. Specifically, we are 11 months-ish away from next winter break. So I started doing points calculations and talked to my sister and we have put together a plan.
Also, I got in touch with my sister S. and we have nailed down a weekend in June for us to go to LegoLand NY with her kids, and with A.
Also, I looked up how many points I transferred from DVC into RCI because I was otherwise going to lose them, and turned a little over half of those points into a long weekend on the Cape next fall.
Having reached an agreement with T. that if, this summer, it is too onerous / worrisome to travel internationally, I started brainstorming possible US road trips. One possibility is to meet my sister at her not-MILs in Michigan and do stuff there, maybe do Hershey on the way over or back, stuff like that. Not looking promising, as the time frame she is going will overlap with the kids’ camp plans.
Then I looked up the current rules for Canada, downloaded ArriveCan and entered passport and vax info for the four of us. This is _probably_ a do-able trip in the summer, but it’s our second choice. Thus, I looked up the current rules for the Netherlands, and, whoooeeee, that is a _lot_. They had a hard lockdown over the winter break. I think my criteria for traveling to Europe may be, when I can enter my info into EUDCC and participate in their “normal” system, I’d be happy to go, but that’s probably not the full list of criteria because I find the thought of a transatlantic flight wearing a mask the whole time to be more than a little daunting. Perhaps I will get over it some time soon. I know other people are capable of this, but the prospect of trying to convince my kids to leave their masks on, and the collective probable grumpiness makes me super uneasy.