Unknown Speaker  0:01  
My name is Abigail bar, it is October 7 at 10:20am. I am live in Alabama. So one of the things that my family and I wanted to do when the pandemic settled down was go somewhere retired being at home, we had been locked down. And our jobs were very frustrating and different because of the protocols. And some days we work some days, we didn't have to wear a mask all day. It was a frustrating time. So we decided we wanted to get away and have a little bit of fun. So we decided we wanted to go to one of our favorite spots, which was Savannah, Georgia. And we loved going there because it's beautiful. It's the people are nice, it's full of history. And one of the things that we love to do are tours because it gives you just so much information. It's just so interesting to hear, you know, the history of the city. So when we got there, we went ahead, we knew that it was going to be different because of the pandemic. But I wasn't prepared for how frustrating it was going to be. So I had a small list of things I wanted to do. And when we got there we found out we couldn't do a lot of them because of the social distancing practice and the mask mandate and everything and so we couldn't really do a whole lot of tours and we had to wear a mask all the time. And then at the time we went It was close to the close to summer. So it was really hot. So we were it was hot under the mask and we were trying to keep our distance from others so we can all be safe. And it was it was annoying, to say the least. But I knew that I needed to protect myself and protect my family. So we ultimately decided not to go on any tours we may do as what we normally did we we did go out to a few places that were open that had indoor seating and we tried to do things that didn't require to be around a group of people. So we would take walks we would go to a museum that had a limited number of people and but we were able to socially distance properly. But I mean we comply with all of the protocols the mask mandate everything. And I was extra vigilant about it. Even though I was frustrated, I was extra vigilant about it because at the time I was working in a daycare, and I worked with babies about six to 12 month old and I knew that I needed to be safe and clean and healthy because I didn't want to get back to them and get one of them sick and or may not know that I have COVID-19 and then give it to them unknowingly and I would feel so bad because their their systems are so fragile and I care for them a lot. And my parents they're they're not auto immune compromised but they're, they're up there in age and I was extra vigilant. Especially around my mother because she gets colds and things often. I made sure that I had his little ties around me and measures to wash your hands all the time. She wore her mask stayed away from people she got annoyed with me but I didn't it was for her own good so she wasn't too upset with me. But at the time it was annoying. We helped to go back soon to Savannah to to experience the the tours and everything we've done them millions of times before but it's just such a fun part. So it was it felt weird going there and not doing the things we normally do.

Unknown Speaker  4:54  
We have been out since then to other states and It's better. So we hope that it's better down in Sudan to

Unknown Speaker  5:09  
I don't know it was, it was a big challenge. Remembering that we are in an pandemic, because there were a lot of people that weren't really complying and they didn't really wear a mask. So we were trying to stay away from them. And remember to keep our masks on because it was still fairly new. It was like, maybe a month or two after we began locking down and there still are still a lot of unknowns. And so I mean, there are a lot of times that we kind of forgot ourselves, but it's frustrating as it was, it was it was still a fun time. But we hope to go back soon and get to experience it in a better way. Now that the pandemic has somewhat slow down a little bit

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