A Weird COVID Summer

Once upon a time a pandemic had appeared, as school adjusted to the new way of life, we were forced to adjust our summer plans. Our normal vacations we’re not the same as if we left the state, we’d be stuck home for another two weeks, isolated from our friends and family. A family tradition that would be broken for the first time in many years.

Every summer my family and I go to the OBX for summer vacation, and yes we went there way before the show came out. We’d rent a house with a private beach, and our own pool, we created entertainment through playing cards and watching sunrises and sunsets, making memories to last a lifetime.

When COVID hit, we were afraid to go ahead with the trip, yet didn’t want to break tradition, yet we knew the safety of us and others. We decided to continue planning with hopes of being able to make this work, and if COVID numbers stayed low in the area of our stay, we would make it happen.

As the days got closer we started receiving more and more emails on the scarce food on the island and what we should bring in expectation of items being limited. Of course we had the limited to none toilet paper and paper towels, but they warned us of the chance of a meat shortage and lack of dairy products. This made our 12 hour trip a little more difficult than normal.

Our 12 hour trip had just got more cramped, with 7 passengers in one van and a butt kid of suitcases, and now with all the food there was little to no room for lounging, we were packed like sardines, but it would all be worth it in the end.

A family tradition gone weird, turned into one of the best vacations ever, we were forced to create memories on our own without being in public, we made our own entertainment and created memories to last forever.