Atlantic City Summer 2021

 The Horseshoe Crab Adventure
 
Well, maybe if more people wore their masks and got vaccinated when they were supposed to I could have more involved, more frequent, and longer vacation stories. 
 
Nevertheless, here we are.
 
We were able to sneak in a short Atlantic City adventure before college took hold of our family. 
 
Mostly just to get the heck out of the house for a while.
 
Once again, missing any of dance classes was out of the question and a nearly midnight ride was required after Anabelle’s summer Danceworks schedule.
 
Luckily, my ability (and frequent need) to fall asleep in any chair, couch or stationary surface is counteracted by vehicles keeping me wide-awake.
 
Especially when enhanced with caffeinated diet soda and properly placed snack bags.
 
 
As a general note, we wore our masks anytime we were inside and not in our room, before the indoor mask advisement returned. This had nothing to do with fear or politics.  It was for two reasons:
1) Respect for the workers in the places we visited who had customers breathing on them all day.
2) I wasn’t ready to give up the ability to make faces at people without them knowing it
 
In spite of the mask mandate being removed, at the time a fair amount of others wore their masks inside. I respect that.
 
Since the mandate and CDC recommendation was removed for the vaccinated at the time, other people were not masked, and I respected that as well.
 
What I had trouble summoning any respect for were the people who, after a YEAR AND A HALF of this, used the mask as a chinstrap or couldn’t figure out how to cover their nose.
 
You could train a monkey to wear a mask the right way much faster than that.
You could probably also explain why the monkey should be vaccinated, and have it understand in that time as well.
 
Sorry, I'm ranting again, its been a rough stretch.

Here’s the index.
 
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4