Penultimate Day

We Hope


Tracking tells us that our tests have been delivered, to ‘Glen @ Ship Dock’ in Vancouver, which we assumed was a local testing station, rather than being sent all the way back to Ontario.  It turns out that ATS, where Glen works, is not Advanced Testing Services, but Advanced Transport Services, who specialise in medical and associated transportation.  It looks as though they have been shipped back to the laboratory at Mississauga ON, where we started our Canadian quarantine in the mandatory hotel, two weeks ago tomorrow.

How do we know all this you might ask.  Well there isn’t much else to do when you are in quarantine!

On a more serious note, it does make you appreciate the freedom we have compared to many living in urban flats and apartments, who had to tolerate weeks of self isolation.  It is easy to understand how for some it was a real mental health challenge.  Behind the humour, we recognise we are very fortunate.
 
Reading the small print, it appears that even if the tests come back negative, we are still required to remain in quarantine for the full 14 days.  So no remission for good conduct! Fourteen days based on the time we arrived in Canada.  Thank goodness the flight was 30 minutes early!

We had a chance to catch-up with our hosts today, all properly socially distanced.  Jody was cleaning his car, so he and I put the world to rights and found our views converged on most things.  Trust in politicians (or lack of it), US elections, government Covid management.  The list went on.  

Meanwhile Fred was nattering with Shari, about a possible return visit in July after our stay up on the Sunshine Coast, and assuming of course we haven’t found something to buy by then.

All in all an OK day, if you have to be incarcerated!  

Jack, on the other hand, has been playing in the garden and is now ‘walking out’ with Josie, the lady boxer.

It’s all right for some.



 



Comments

  1. UnknownApril 18, 2021 at 3:48 AM

    Hi Mike and Freda. Today should be your first day of freedom. Alison and I hope you enjoy it and move on to the next exciting adventure in Canada.

    Alec and Alison

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