An excellent Christmas!

It’s hard to believe an entire week has flown by already! Evelyn and Caroline’s flight left at 4pm today (only 45 minutes late which is way better than the 3 hour delay they had leaving Toronto) and they should reach home around 6:45pm. We had the best time together- hanging out at the pool, going to the beach and just being together!! I miss them already!!!

One thing we did was visit the McKee Botanical Gardens with Evelyn’s partner Alexander and his parents. It was a very nice garden and it was great to see Alexander and his parents. This was really the only “touristy” thing we did and we enjoyed it.

The end of the week was a bit stressful as we tried to organize the pcr tests for the girls to return home. We started looking for an appointment in the morning of Dec. 27 (over 72 hours from their flight) and we couldn’t find anything around us. There was one place that had available times but they would only do tests if you had symptoms (not for travellers), so we had no choice but to say they had symptoms. They were able to get a spit pcr test at 11am Dec. 28 (we figured that would be plenty of time to get the results before their flight). Unfortunately, Mark received an email about 6pm that day saying both their samples had integrity issues and there were no results!!! Okay, just a little bit of stress now!!! So at 8am Dec. 29, Mark calls the lab that ran the test to see what happened and to see what can we do now! No real explanation for the test result (or lack there of) but they said they could do another test right away. So we drove down to Fort Pierce (that’s where the lab was – about 30 minutes south) and got a new spit pcr test. So it was now 9:30 am Dec. 29 – about 30 hours before their flight and the test results could take 24 to 48 hours 😮. We were super lucky and had the negative results by 5pm that day. The girls were able to complete the arriveCAN app and do their online checkin that night and were all good to go this morning.

So now that Mark and I are back to being empty boaters (sort of like empty nesters 😉), it’s back to boat jobs. Not sure what’s on the list but I know there are a few big items that need to be done. So it’s time to get back to work – but at least we have a really nice pool to relax in at the end of the day.