Getting Lucky

Getting Lucky

Friday March 26, 2021

We went to shore early to register our dinghy with the marina.  Our plan for the day was to meet up with our friends Lynn and Lee.  They had offered to drive us to our vaccine appointment at the Solomon Calhoun Community Center.  The drive was fairly short so we arrived quite early for our appointment.  We were all a bit shocked by the sight of police cars and officers stopping vehicles on the way into the parking lot.  Our names were checked off on a list of people with appointments and we were directed to park and make our way to the big white tent.  When the officer asked our friends if they also wanted to get vaccinated, we started to think this might work out...

The whole operation was so well organized it was hard to believe.  The white tent led to a check in station where ID was checked and paperwork was printed off.  Then we were directed to another area to fill in our paperwork.  An EMT came to check over our responses to the questions and ask about allergies to medicines.  Then we were on our way to the actual injection stations.  The large room seemed to have twelve stations for administration of the vaccine.  A card was filled out with the information about our first injection, the time was recorded and we were directed to another room where our follow-up appointment was scheduled.  Then we were asked to wait until fifteen minutes had elapsed since our injection.  We then staggered out of the building and back to our friends waiting in the parking lot.  It was 11:10—still five minutes before our appointment time!  It’s hard to describe the sense of relief that we feel being on the way to being vaccinated.  No one seemed to care one way or another if we were resident in Florida or not.  Although Donna, who did my injection, seemed interested in the idea that we were living on a boat.

Our friends transported us back to their apartment.  Lynn prepared a delicious lunch of chicken Caesar salad—yum.  We went for a swim in the pool, a soak in the hot tub AND we did our laundry. 

Gloria

29 53.993 N, 81 18.473 W

Sunrise on a slightly foggy morning in St Augustine

Sunrise through the "dodger" covered in dew

Gloria swimming in the pool at the apartment complex where Lynn and Lee rented their AirBnB

Lynn and Lee in the pool

A portrait of Gloria under the waterfall in the hot-tub

Now that's a shower with a lot of water!