As you will have noted I have not posted on the Splendor June 21,2022. When Ken and I tested to board the Splendor to our surprise we were both positive for covid. We have been isolating in the hotel in Copenhagen. Neither one of us had much in the way of symptoms I have a little bit of a dry cough initially which cleared up fast and Ken just had a runny nose that he often has anyway. We felt 100% okay hard to believe we had covid. Of course we are double boostered.

Funny how things work but in one way this ended up helping business wise. Not client wise as we really missed spending time with all the people on the Splendor. Taylor got covid and was out of the office, Jennifer was on the Explorer and Clay was playing in a golf tournament somehow connected with Regent. Everyone in the office was super busy and no one knew anything about the two trips I am organizing. The Polar Bear tour had a ton of activity including the final payment and insurance, along with the flights coming through for the safari following the Voyager cruise from Lisbon to Cape Town. I had super fast speed internet in the hotel and could work on VPN. On the ship you cannot VPN. So I was able to handle everything and this kept me busy in our isolation.

The hotel room was nice we were upgraded and it was a large room with a great view of the canal which is a hive of activity. The food was good. We both spend nearly the entire time on our computers. Yesterday it was over 5 days in isolation and in Denmark you can go out of isolation at 5 days if you wear your mask. So yesterday we to Rosenborg Palace and Nyhavn. The palace had very few visitors which surprised me and it was well worth the visit. It was a stunning day about 80 degrees and bright sunshine. The kids here celebrate graduating high school for a full month. They wear their graduation hats, have army vehicles driving them around town. They are cheering and blowing whistles.

Today I tested negative, Ken is still positive but probably tomorrow he will test negative as well. We ordered a new product we found out about in checking everything covid. Under different brands names and just approved for world wide distribution. This was developed in India. Supposedly kills the corona virus. We order ENOVID from Israel and they started sending it out on June 23 and our order was filled and shipped that day. We just received notification from DHL it will be delivered to us at the hotel today. Clay ordered it for the office as well. It can be sent to USA from Israel. It said you can use this as a deterrent to catching covid and it kills the virus before it takes hold. Hopefully this product will live up to expectations. Clay is going to use it when he goes on his cruise in July. Something that I hope is successful and stop people from getting covid.

We need to get a "fit to travel" certificate and have an appointment to get that and another test on the 29th and then fly to the Splendor on the 30th when it arrives in Reykjavik. Really looking forward to stepping on that Splendor and seeing everyone.

I was told once you have a positive PCR test and then you recover you are exempt from future testing for 3 months. Got a lot of trips in the next 3 months love not having to take that test!

Not been a terrible thing getting covid. At least we have some natural immunity as well now. Life throws us all curve balls but in reality all these things do pass and you have to expect a few bumps in the road. Like the song - I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometime