Day 10: A memory blank...

 All the days are kind of blending together.  Not surprising given the limited opportunities!  Today was interesting in the exercise yard.  One of the people off our flight has set up a yoga class in the corner.  She obviously chatted with a few people, as they have mats or towels with them.  I pity the poor white hotel towels!  She is doing a basic class, and has a lot of people joining in.  Everyone is desperate for something different I think.  Some of the folks who are bending and twisting look like it is their first time :)

We have started talking about what we are going to do out the other side.  We are flying to Rotorua where my mum and dad will meet us and take us back over to Whakatane.  There has been a case here of a guy who passed through the 14 days of quarantine with two negative tests, and tested positive 4 days out.  the virus was linked to the plane he came in on, so it waited until the 14 days had passed to come to the surface.  There are calls for the quarantine to be longer - or at least have people self isolate for another 10-14 days after they get out of quarantine. It does seem like it was an outlier at this point - it hasn't happened to anyone else - but it does make us a bit nervous about physical contact with our older people.  Which is kinda hard having not seen them for at the very least 12 months.  With NZ being at level 1 (pretty much business as usual) people may not be used to feeling like you have to avoid others, and mask wearing doesn't seem as prevalent as it was in Canada. I remember feeling a bit like this when we came out of the period of self isolation in BC - feeling unsure about how much contact was too much contact!  We had a relatively small bubble in BC, and were pretty darn careful on the flight over.  There have been no positive cases in the hotel, so you would think that we would be as safe as we could possibly be out the other side of quarantine!  Doesn't stop me feeling slightly nervous about hugging my centenarian grandmother though...