Thanks for weighing in everyone! I think it is just giving me pause because it seems so big after the very limited amount of activities we have done the past 18 months. I don’t have a need to eat out in restaurants so we don’t. Travel is in house rentals but that’s our normal preference even before Covid. Family get togethers have been limited to mainly seeing vaccinated family or outside visits.
I know it is a ways off, hopefully things will be much better by the end of March. But that’s what we all thought would happen by this fall as well, and then Delta shredded those ideas.
Vaccination rates are not great in my county, only 47% fully vaccinated and it has only risen from 43% in June. People are outraged there is now a mask mandate from the governor and are suing. I am guessing not many teens are vaccinated. DD1 says about 1/2 of her friends on the tennis team are and she only knows for certain of 2 others in orchestra with her, one which she wants to room with on this trip. It’s hit or miss with other friends she sits by in classes. If I knew more kids/chaperones were vaccinated it would help my worries! Also, the music department tries to take trips at least every other year. There will probably be at least one trip to Disney World by the time she is a senior. They just did Disney at the beginning of March 2020 just as Covid was becoming a bigger concern here. Her younger sister is also in band and orchestra, so I envision several of these trips in our future.
As of now they are saying commitment forms need to be in by next week, they will make a final decision on the trip in December but after that they are locked in with the travel company and don’t know if refunds will be available. It would stink to lose the $400 if they don’t go, but it won’t break us. I just wish I could feel a little bit better about saying yes than I do.
I hate making these decisions as I know I am in the minority, everyone else around here has gone back to life as normal. Our hospital Covid cases continue to get closer to what they were during last year’s winter peak yet I was in Target yesterday and it was only employees and a handful of customers wearing masks. Another local store I was in this morning and I was the only one wearing a mask. At the high school life looks like normal with crowded activities. The only exception is the indoor mask mandate by the governor but DD says most kids and some teachers wear them as chin warmers.
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