We don’t have as much to tell you about 2020 because, like you, we pretty much stayed at home after mid-March, except for Jerry’s visits to the grocery store, pharmacy, post office and bank. We hope you also stayed safe and well.
In January, we saw the musical The Simon & Garfunkel Story at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It was the last theater we’d been to since the pandemic started. Everything else was cancelled or postponed. Coincidentally, a young man we befriended who was an entertainer on a couple of our Viking cruises played the role of Art Garfunkel in the British touring production.
Fortunately, we were able to take our annual ski trip in early February to Deer Valley, Utah. Anne bought new skis, even shorter than the ones she had. They are great! Jerry said he had never seen Anne ski so well. 
The complimentary Mediterranean cruise we had booked for mid-January was postponed indefinitely. This was to be the maiden voyage of the Viking Venus—the invitation we received from the CEO of Viking after our experience on Viking Sky off the coast of Norway last year (see the details and photos here in our blog).
We did make it to South America in 2020, with Anne’s cousin Charlie Sceia and his wife Marie. We didn’t have to pay for this trip, since it was a gift from the CEO of Viking—again because of the experience on the Viking Sky. 
It was a wonderful trip (you can also read about and see pictures of that trip here on our blog). We had to return home two days early because the Argentine government was about to close the airports due to Covid-19. We returned home on March 17, the day our state (New Jersey) was locked down because of the virus. We LOVED Buenos Aires and wished we could have stayed the two extra days. But we did get to meet the Sceia brothers – no relation to Anne, but they had met on Facebook.
We spent the summer at our condo at the shore. We’re thankful we had another place to go, with everything closed. We walked on the beach two miles each day, which was a pleasant diversion. We cooked a lot of fish and neither Anne nor Jerry gained any weight!! We did eat outside at a few restaurants during the summer months.
Anne wrote another book during the stay-at-home order. It is titled “Finding Your Career Niche: Conversations About Women & Business” and is aimed at women. It is published by Business Expert Press and is available at Amazon.com.
When summer ended, we once again had to stay at home, and like most people (except, it seems, a select few high government officials) we were unable to have Thanksgiving dinner with family or friends. There were even more restrictions on restaurants and travel, so we continued to stay at home. To date (December 2020), we have been fortunate that neither Anne nor Jerry has gotten sick. With the vaccine on the horizon, we will take it when it is offered by our doctor.
We were not able to host our usual Christmas Day dinner for our family, and our cousins’ annual Christmas Eve dinner also was canceled. Normally we would have joined Anne’s Lucas-family relatives; two cousins alternate hosting that dinner, one in Blue Bell, Pa. and the other in North Wales, Pa.
Jerry returned to playing ice hockey in August and quickly got back to playing three times a week. Both adult and youth league play were suspended, but Jerry plays in “open hockey” (aka “pickup hockey”), which is not an “organized” activity and thus was still permitted. In October, Anne resumed training with her personal trainer at the PT studio she had not been to since January. This was a difficult experience for her as she found it somewhat hard to breathe through the mask. We checked with our doctor and he said he thought it was safe to resume these activities if we washed our clothes when we got home and took a shower. With more new lockdown orders looming, we just wondered if the gyms and the rink will be closed again. At year end, they were still open.
We’ve spent a lot of time watching movies at home – usually three each evening – on the Hallmark channel, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The Hallmark movies, especially, are upbeat romantic comedies and have kept us going each day. We have also spent considerable time going through Anne’s father’s thousands of 35mm slides and selecting a few (still in the hundreds!) to be digitized.
What a year! Like you, we couldn’t wait for 2020 to conclude!