After spending a week with strangers from all kinds of other places, we decided to get COVID tests before sending the kids back to summer programs.

The tests were easy. The hardest parts were getting the kids into the car without tablets (probably should have let them have them), and convincing them it wouldn't hurt, even as we went first.

I wasn't too psyched for the brain-scraping tests that the wife had when she did it some time ago. The place we went doesn't do the saliva swab, either. But they now do the nasal swab, not the brain-scrape. Essentially a gloved and masked nurse wipes a Q-Tip inside the bulb of your nose, and breaks it off into a test tube to send it to the lab. Easy in and out.

As happens, we pulled right in behind the car just finishing in our lane, which was a couple cars shorter than the other lane, and a bunch of cars lined up behind us. Working in the parking lots as college kids still pays off with the gods of traffic and parking!

A little "who are you" confirmation, and aligning the packets with the person, swipes and tickles, and we were on our way. Now to wait the 12-to-24 hours to hear if we're clear. We anticipate results overnight, so we should know to send the kids to school in the morning.

The kids have expressed dissatisfaction at not being able to go anywhere or do anything, especially the community pool. I suggested that it's possible someone picked this up in the smaller gathering of people at the cabin, and it would be horrible to learn tomorrow that someone does have it and that we may have spread it to the hundreds of families at the community pool. The same argument exists for why no play dates or other visits.

So, everyone is off to the iPads!

Everyone's healthy.