{"id":202,"date":"2021-01-17T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2022-01-17T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:53:36","slug":"2020-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/2021\/01\/17\/2020-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don\u2019t have as much to tell you about 2020 because, like you, we pretty much stayed at home after mid-March, except for Jerry\u2019s visits to the grocery store, pharmacy, post office and bank.\u00a0 We hope you also stayed safe and well.<\/p>\n

In January, we saw the musical The Simon & Garfunkel Story<\/em> at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It was the last theater we\u2019d 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.\"\"<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we were able to take our annual ski trip in early February to Deer Valley, Utah.\u00a0 Anne bought new skis, even shorter than the ones she had. \u00a0They are great!\u00a0 Jerry said he had never seen Anne ski so well.\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

The complimentary Mediterranean cruise we had booked for mid-January was postponed indefinitely.\u00a0 This was to be the maiden voyage of the Viking Venus\u2014the 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).<\/p>\n

We did make it to South America in 2020, with Anne\u2019s cousin Charlie Sceia and his wife Marie.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have to pay for this trip, since it was a gift from the CEO of Viking\u2014again because of the experience on the Viking Sky. \"\"<\/p>\n

It was a wonderful trip (you can also read about and see pictures of that trip here on our blog).\u00a0 We had to return home two days early because the Argentine government was about to close the airports due to Covid-19.\u00a0 We returned home on March 17, the day our state (New Jersey) was locked down because of the virus.\u00a0 We LOVED Buenos Aires and wished we could have stayed the two extra days. But we did get to meet the Sceia brothers \u2013 no relation to Anne, but they had met on Facebook.<\/p>\n

We spent the summer at our condo at the shore.\u00a0 We\u2019re thankful we had another place to go, with everything closed.\u00a0 We walked on the beach two miles each day, which was a pleasant diversion.\u00a0 We cooked a lot of fish and neither Anne nor Jerry gained any weight!!\u00a0 We did eat outside at a few restaurants during the summer months.<\/p>\n

Anne wrote another book during the stay-at-home order.\u00a0 It is titled \u201cFinding Your Career Niche: Conversations About Women & Business\u201d 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.\u00a0 To date (December 2020), we have been fortunate that neither Anne nor Jerry has gotten sick.\u00a0 With the vaccine on the horizon, we will take it when it is offered by our doctor.<\/p>\n

We were not able to host our usual Christmas Day dinner for our family, and our cousins\u2019 annual Christmas Eve dinner also was canceled.\u00a0 Normally we would have joined Anne\u2019s Lucas-family relatives; two cousins alternate hosting that dinner, one in Blue Bell, Pa. and the other in North Wales, Pa.<\/p>\n

Jerry returned to playing ice hockey in August and quickly got back to playing three times a week. \u00a0Both adult and youth league<\/em> play were suspended, but Jerry plays in \u201copen hockey\u201d (aka \u201cpickup hockey\u201d), which is not an \u201corganized\u201d activity and thus was still permitted.\u00a0 In October, Anne resumed training with her personal trainer at the PT studio she had not been to since January.\u00a0 This was a difficult experience for her as she found it somewhat hard to breathe through the mask.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 With more new lockdown orders looming, we just wondered if the gyms and the rink will be closed again.\u00a0 At year end, they were still open.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve spent a lot of time watching movies at home \u2013 usually three each evening \u2013 on the Hallmark channel, Netflix and Amazon Prime.\u00a0 The Hallmark movies, especially, are upbeat romantic comedies and have kept us going each day.\u00a0 We have also spent considerable time going through Anne\u2019s father\u2019s thousands of 35mm slides and selecting a few (still in the hundreds!) to be digitized.<\/p>\n

What a year!\u00a0 Like you, we couldn’t wait for 2020 to conclude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We don\u2019t have as much to tell you about 2020 because, like you, we pretty much stayed at home after mid-March, except for Jerry\u2019s visits to the grocery store, pharmacy, post office and bank.\u00a0 We hope you also stayed safe and well. In January, we saw the musical The Simon & Garfunkel Story at the … Continue reading “2020 Year in Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual-summary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paT7Ct-3g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akleinpr.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}