What's been going on over the last 10 months?

 This morning I was feeling nostalgic and I had a look back through some of my old posts.  I realized what a great diary of our travels and special family events the blog is.  I have been doing some small posts on facebook because it's quick and easy but it's not the same as the blog.  Last winter when blogger stopped supporting my off line open live writer draft program the blog became difficult to keep up.  We do not have access to to internet when we are at home.  It wasn't a huge problem until I couldn't do an off line draft and then publish it later.  Now I must be online to create a draft.  We are in Mazatlan and never got the internet installed in the house until late December and then it seemed like a big pain to try and catch up the blog.  Well I've decided to give it a go.  

We arrived home last March after a whirlwind 8 day dash from Mazatlan to snow.  

We are now in Mazatlan and it will soon be March again.  Last March we were advised by the Canadian government to come home due to the Covid 19 pandemic and we complied.  In November of 2020 we left Canada to spend our winter in Mazatlan, Mexico where we own a house.  We could not drive due to the border closure and so we had to fly.  We had a direct flight planned with WestJet from Vancouver to Mazatlan but that was cancelled.  In the end we flew from Terrace to Vancouver and then on to Edmonton, Alberta where we spent the night before flying out on Swoop direct to Mazatlan.  We have spent a warm, healthy, quiet winter here in Mazatlan and now we will encounter a difficult, expensive journey home due to the new Canadian quarantine regulations for international flights.  When we left in November the government had advised against unnecessary travel but that means different things to different people.  I have no intention in getting into a debate about the travel restrictions but suffice it to say " too little, too late."  We will deal with what we have to.  In the end we have not and will not create any health problems for our home country.  We have adequate health insurance for our winter here and we have abided by the same rules that we would have had we stayed home.  

Below are some pictures of the beach, our friends Frank/Sandi and Dennis/Marilyn who have been our safe circle over the winter.  There has been no ladies lunch, bingo, trips out of town (no vehicle!) trips downtown except for necessities and no theater on Sundays.  We ladies have played "masked up cards" outside twice a week with Ruth, Eddie, Diane and Jackie.  So, yes we have had a better winter than most but we have also been incredibly careful as well.  

Over the coming weeks I will attempt to put the last ten months in some semblance of order now that I've decided that the blog is still a worthwhile venture.  These are difficult times but hopefully things will get better by the end of 2021 and people will be able to get back to some semblance of normal.