Fingers crossed for you, and I’m with you on the last minute booking. Same thing happened to us already, things are just too unpredictable at the moment to book ahead.
The Week #92
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James
- It was bound to happen. After 2 and a half years of dodging covid like Frogger, it finally made it into the house. Leo caught it at his pre-school and is part of a cluster of people (15 and counting) who all got it. He was exposed on Monday or Tuesday.
On Wednesday during the day, he was out getting visiting city hall to get documents/getting photos taken for his Japanese passport. He didn't have much appetite for at dinner time, but we assumed it was because he had a big snack around 4pm and was just tired out and about all day. Then we got notification about his potential exposure. Oops...
That night he had bad (fever?) dreams and indeed when he woke up he was super hot. Checked his temp and he was running high 38. Took a test and he was positive. By Friday evening his fever started to drop and his appetite started to return. By Saturday he fully recovered. - Thus far, knock on wood, Yumi and I have both been able to dodge it within the house or our boosters are doing their job. I'm super grateful that it's come into the house right as our antibodies are at their post-boost peak. If we don't feel any symptoms, the city has asked that we isolate for 7 days, or until the 7th as close contacts. Leo is to isolate for 10 days. If we do feel symptoms, they want us to tack another 7 days on top of that as close contacts...I think.
- We're isolating as much possible, but not entirely. The dog still gets walked (always masked before, still masked now). And we still need to eat, so I had to do some minimal grocery shopping after we were contacted by his school. I checked my temp before hand and was double masked. But that will be the extent to our "going out" for the next week.
- Which is to say that we had to cancel our trip to Disney. With how light his experience had been i.e. he's fully recovered for 3 days and neither of us showing signs (knock on wood) of having breakthrough cases, I'm most disappointed about this.
We could reschedule the tickets for another day without issue. But as it was within 7 days, canceling the hotel still cost is about 200 bucks. With our trip to Atami this summer and now this stay being canceled last minute, I'm tired of donating money to the hotel industry without actually getting to stay anywhere. I think I'll always book last minute as a matter of policy from here on out... - I started listening to X Japan for the first time in ages and I forgot how much they rock. It's a shame the selection for them on Apple Music isn't great. It doesn't have Rusty Nail, one of my favorite songs by them. The linked video is from, "The Last Live", their last concert, which I first saw in high school after downloading it off of Hotline and highly recommend.
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Sorry to hear about Disneyland :( I’ve been wanting to go back for ages.
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Hopefully later this month...we'll see.
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