Photo of the day: Quarantine Edition

Greetings from Snowmass, CO! I am here just... waiting until 1. I am done with my 14 days of quarantine required of anyone coming in to the state and 2. for some other option to come up of where to go during this weird time. My coworker Bennett kindly let me stay for this undetermined amount of time at his parent's place. We drove here in a single (read: long ass) day from Texas, and I'm going to try and tell you what we've been up to in photo form, because we have a strictly enforced photo-of-the-day requirement, and a rule that no two photos can be taken in the same spot. It's been a pretty ideal quarantine situation and I have not been bored yet! 

Day 1: Driving Day! We wore these masks made by Nina and drove for 18 hours, including this shopping trip to stock up for the next two weeks. 

Day 2: Virtual Passover! We hosted a quick seder over Zoom with some Outward Bound friends. I made matzah ball soup and Bennett hid both a virtual and real afikomen. Twas a nice way to connect.

Day 3: Guitar Lessons! Bennett has been teaching me guitar almost every day. I have worked up from Ode To Joy and am now picking along to Worried Man Blues. Our running joke is that Bennett is a really mean teacher and makes fun of my "skills." It is true that I have absolutely no rhythm. 

Day 4: Snow Day! Porch pic from the beginning of the day-- a lot more snow came throughout the day and I tramped around in it and ate some of course. It was pretty bizarre to come from 80 degree Texas to a foot of snow here in Colorado.

Day 5: This Huge Puzzle. We worked on it for 8 days-- a typical morning involved a couple solid hours of puzzling while sipping coffee and listening to BingeMode Harry Potter (highly recommend). 2,000 pieces, so we're feeling pretty dang accomplished now that it is done.

Day 6: Hallway! We aren't really supposed to leave the apartment according to the county rules but I have been carefully going outside for a lil exercise every day. I kick all the doors open to leave and use hand sani on the way in.

Day 7: Avatar. We have been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender every night in quarantine. This began down in Redford where we all watched the first season together, and now that we are separated, Kevin and Carly have been watching and so have we. So one night (day 7!) we video chatted with them to discuss our feelings about the second season.

Day 8: Best Fiends. This is my current quarantine vice. A phone game where you try to destroy evil slugs... we are both obsessed and have definitely wasted hours and hours on it. Here we are, fiending away. 

Day 9: High Tea! Spurred because I found some cooking lavender, so I made an eggless lavender cake loaf and we had tea with fancy jam jars and it was quite nice! Inspiring of course by High Tea at Cove work weekends.

Day 10: Virtual Gaming! We have so far played virtual Catan with Rachael and Thomas on a website and then on this day we tried virual Pandemic using two video chats, a real board on our end, and good communication with Maxx and Jaimie on the other end! Sadly we did not win, but it was a successful endeavor. So many screens!

Day 11: Abs squad! We do 15-min abs every other day with the Redford homies-- a tradition that began during our Redford Quarantine (see previous blog post) and is still going strong over fb messenger video. We mostly just hang out and chat but also do our workout. This day had a strong turnout and many giggles as we were introduced to the wild world of filters by Jaime and Maxx.

Day 12: The Kitchen! We take turns cooking every day. Lunch and breakfast are half fend for yourself, half one of us sometimes makes more of a thing. Dinners have been fun in that one of us is totally responsible each day, so you just wait and see what the other person whips up from our funny assortment of freshies and random dried trail food. I've made Challah for Shabbat both Fridays, and Bennett's specialty has been eggless cupcakes. We made our two dozen eggs last 12 days, wooohoo! Shoutout to chia seeds and applesauce. 

Day 13: Garage Trip. We try to limit trips to the car where the majority of our stuff still is because it's technically a public space, but on this day we went on a mission to grab yeast and Ticket to Ride. Just essentials, ya know.

Day 14: Bath pic! Finally took this one-- it was our plan since Day 1. We each have a bathtub in our rooms and pretty much every night we watch Avatar until 8:30 or 9 and then go take a luxurious bath. Bennet's mom has a lot of bath salts that we've been testing out, and I've brought in an array of candles and I read Terry Tempest Williams by candlelight and it's quite dreamy.

Ok, that's all for now so I can post this today and check that off the to-do list! Despite what our photo count says, we still have tomorrow to be in quarantine and then on Tuesday we are technically free! Well, free to go to public spaces like a grocery store and free to drive to a trailhead. The only parts of our quarantine not included in this photo series is our art table where we watercolor. Hope you enjoyed a peek into our quarantine life! Next up: who the heck knows. I sure don't!