I saw a short clip of the UCLA band at the battle of the bands downtown and that looked like fun. We sat through a Holiday Bowl in the cold and dark a long time ago and it was really cold when our team was losing. Not so bad a year or 2 later when they won.
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Just because you’re not a fan of the Poulan Weedeater Bowl doesn’t mean we need to cancel the Rose Bowl. 
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I know it’s all to promote tourism, but tweeting team pictures from Sea World without masks was foolhardy. Going was foolhardy, but probably contracted.
I don’t know how people in LA and Pasadena feel about the tens of thousands of fans from Ohio and Utah crowding their streets and airports in the midst of the biggest wave of the pandemic. Positivity rate in LA has already exceeded 25%. I heard Omicron has been found at some nursing facilities. Can hospitals handle the surge?
Definitely taking a pause on travel. Cancelled our 10 day trip to Disney for 8 for starting Dec 29. Planned back in April when things seemed to be going in the right direction. Even after delta, Florida seemed to be going in the right direction until Omicron arrived. Rescheduled for next Thanksgiving….who knows if it will be any better but we are hopeful.
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Flight Saturday morning, super early so I am shuttling there and staying in an airport hotel, fingers crossed it’s not cancelled and even moreso that my next leg is not cancelled!
HI couldn’t compete in Hawaii Bowl, so had to withdraw. They are all wrangling about the expenses and who should pay or be paid. Too many of our players and staff were in quarantine and/or had Covid. 
Just canceled our trip to Orlando/ the Citrus Bowl. One of our party was exposed for hours to someone who tested positive for COVID. Neither of them was wearing a mask. The exposed person is still going, but we are not. We are pretty sure the exposed person is not a great mask wearer, and we don’t want to be the mask police. We were already worried about sitting in a stadium with lots of shouting and likely not so much mask wearing, but this sealed it for us.
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Should have come on down --weather is perfect and everything great,
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Reconsidering our early Feb. trip to Tahiti. I don’t want to get stuck.
Instead…looking at putting a Mexico trip into place. Something about being on the same continent with a large number of flights per day just feels better.
We definitely need to get out. We’ve done our part for the past 22 months. Stayed home, isolated, etc. I’ve watched family travel with lots of safety protocols in place and be just fine.
I can sit here and wait for the Omicron wave to pass…all the while being certain there will be another variant sloshing to shore.
I regret not traveling during the summer when the vaccines apparently protected against Delta. If we don’t go now, when all data points towards Omicron being mild, we could get stuck if the next variant is harsher.
H and I are actually taking a two day trip to a small town in SoCal today. It will be the first time since March 2020 that we have slept somewhere other than our own home or our cabin.
Enough is enough.
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Well I went ahead and cancelled my trip to see my dad in MN. He understands and agrees with our decision. So many other things are being cancelled now. We had tickets to see Hugh Jackman in The Music Man on Broadway on Jan. 1 but performances have been cancelled and tickets refunded. I’m kind of relieved that it was taken out of my hands.
It’s interesting because Broadway theaters require masks and proof of vaccination (or a negative test for children who aren’t vaxxed). But cast members are testing positive.
We’re still planning on our USVI trip in Feb and our kids are still planning on moving to Puerto Rico in Jan. The only thing that will change either of our plans is the islands or airlines themselves canceling things.
We’re all adjusting what we’re doing while here to avoid testing positive when it’s time to go, but they’re still visiting DIL’s grandparents (now) since her grandfather has limited time left on this planet. I still have a Dr appt next week I really need to get to. I wanted that back in Nov, but everything was booked. I’m sure tests I “need” will still be booked because they’re “elective” (if anything with a tumor is really elective), but if it can be set up for March when we return that will be a plus. So far, H still has a colonoscopy planned in Jan too. We’ve been wondering if they’ll cancel that on us. I’ve been trying to get him to get one for years and he finally schedules one - only to hit the wave of a pandemic.
Then too, we’re plotting tentative Plan Bs in case the airlines or islands do cancel on us.
I really wish we were past this all by now. We used to be able to do all these things without worrying about getting sick and messing up the trip! Now I feel like I’m going to have to tell that as a story to my grandkids as something that we did in the past.
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Hugh Jackman just announced that he has Covid.
That’s why @NJSue ’s tickets were cancelled and refunded. He had just complimented the understudy for Marion after she stepped in with half a day’s notice due to that lead getting Covid. And boom, he has it. Apparently no understudy for Harold Hill!
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Or his understudy is also out with Covid.
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D’s study abroad trip to Morocco has officially been cancelled. It will now be online @$1500. Two hours a day/18 days. So sad.
D’s trip down south with her seminar class was officially canceled yesterday. It wasn’t the school’s decision, but the Prof’s. He didn’t want to be responsible for tracking down and scheduling PCR tests for 13 people, 1200 miles away, within 72 hours of their arrival back. It seemed like trying to thread a needle with a rocket.
I’m starting to see a theme here…
Don’t plan on a bowl game because it might be canceled.
Don’t plan on the theater because it might be canceled.
Don’t plan on a concert because it might be canceled.
Don’t plan on study abroad because it might be canceled.
Don’t plan on getting on an airplane because the flight might be canceled.
Don’t plan on leaving the country because it might not let you back in (and you might not find a timely test).
Don’t plan on a cruise because you might not get off the ship in port (although I read this morning that Mexico will let ships with infections dock because apparently they need the tourist money more than a healthy populace).
Don’t plan on going out if you live in a tourist area even with an indoor mask mandate because unvaccinated tourists don’t care and it probably won’t be enforced anyway.
I’m sure I missed a few scenarios.
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We too just got back, but from Kauai. I felt very safe there. Lots of outdoor dining available, fresh ocean breezes, and high mask compliance, even some outdoor mask wearing. We did some hiking, driving ATVs, snorkeling, boat rides - all outdoors and with not many others around. It was a welcome break. We tested negative on PCR prior to the trip, we all have our boosters, and wore masks indoors. So even though we had to deal with the airports and airplanes, I feel this was as safe a trip as could be made given the circumstances. We have Binax Now tests that H and I will do tomorrow, 3 days post-flight. D tested today before going to visit a friend and it was negative. TBH, up until the day before leaving for our trip I wasn’t sure if we would go or not but at this moment I can say I’m glad we went. The next few days will be the real test though, if we remain negative I will feel like we won this lottery.
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I had the exact same feelings when we went to Kauai in the fall.
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