Cabo Home and Coronavirus

(A partially finished half bath)

Many of you know we headed down to Cabo last week to 

crack the whip on the construction of our never-ending 

build in Cabo.  We had decided that we could self-isolate 

there, since there was no presence of Coronavirus in 

lower Baja Mexico.  

We packed our bags with the intent to stay two to four 

weeks as they finished up construction. 

We were some of the handful of people who wore 

masks on the way down.  Someone needs to work 

with hubby on proper use of mask while sleeping!!

We had warned them in January that we would be bringing 

a group of 4 down this week for my son's Spring Break. 

We asked that they have two bedrooms and baths ready.  

But knowing how things go, we decided to also book a room 

at Villa La Estancia, where we have stayed during 

the construction process. 

That way we could continue to enjoy pools and their 

incredible shrimp nachos at the pool. 

As we had suspected, the house was nowhere near ready 

to stay at, although they had two bedrooms and baths 

that we could have stayed in, but there wasn't glass 

in the front door - haha - didn't feel that comfortable 

to be staying in a house that was wide open. 

My son and his wife weren't able to make it, but we had 

great friends who had volunteered to drive our 15 passenger 

van down the Baja, filled with household goods.  

This will be our last in-restaurant dining for a while, so 

we had to get our picture taken. 

Everything was business as usual at Cabo, with some cancellations, 

and definitely not as busy as Spring Break would usually feel.

We enjoyed the sun and water, food and pools, 

but you may have heard that our area experienced 

a 5.7 earthquake on Wednesday morning.  Their teenage 

daughter was at home with his brother and wife, but 

that kind of freaked her out.  They decided to go 

home a day early.  The airport was closed half a day 

because of broken water pipes.  If Coronavirus fears weren't 

enough, the earthquake made people tremble even more. 

False rumors were started that a 9.0 would follow within 

30 minutes!!  All was well at home.  My daughter went to 

check and a decorative metal platter had fallen off of 

the pizza oven, but that was about all.  

Meanwhile, my daughter got laid off that day, and so 

did my niece - both working in restaurants. 

Despite all of this, we felt comfortable with our decision to stay awhile 

and keep people finishing up the house - also making critical 

design decisions.  

The people in Cabo also told us to stay - that we were safer down 

there, where there was no Coronavirus.

So, on a daily basis we saw things progress - like this outdoor shower,

and this saying put up down by the lower pool,

and furniture being unpacked.  The original plan was for the kids 

and their kids to come down April 6th for their Spring Break, 

although at this point, we doubted that would be happening.

On the second day we noticed a cruise ship pull into the bay.  

We wondered at that and finally found an article about it.  

It is a Holland America ship.  There are not enough places for 

cruise ships to dock, so they had received permission from Cabo 

to anchor their boat.  There are 800 crew members living onboard.  

Had you thought about what happened to crew members when 

the cruise lines stopped?  They can't afford to fly home and are 

under contract, so they are living on the ships, wherever they 

could dock or anchor.  

Our friends decided to fly home on Thursday, as their daughter 

wanted them home.  

We had originally planned this trip for our college son's Spring Break 

from Monday to Saturday, but right before dinner Friday night 

we decided to see if there would be flights home a week later.  If we 

stayed one more week we could get a lot of things wrapped up on 

the house.  There was a pretty full flight, so we thought we wouldn't 

get trapped in Cabo like so many had in Europe.  We booked the 

flight and booked another week at the resort.  Off to dinner we went. 

As we were eating, the waiter asked when we were leaving.  Then he 

told us that the resorts and restaurants were all shutting down 

on Monday since the border was closing Saturday.  

We had followed 

that story, but it was the land border that 

was closing and Delta showed pretty full flights 

leaving the next weekend.  

These pictures are from a happier dinner, earlier 

in the week,  because as we heard that,

hubby left to go back to the room 

to try and change our flights back to the following day

 - Saturday.  He never returned to the table, so I 

had them box up our main dishes.  We had both 

kind of lost our appetites.

Saturday morning we went to the house a final time

 with staples that we had purchased for a long stay. 

 As we drove through the town, there were no tourists left.

  The rental car companies had their parking lots spilling

onto the streets. 

The airport was packed and people everywhere now

 were wearing masks.  

(Hubby wore his correctly on the way home - just a little 

humor to deal with the stress!) 

Arriving in the Salt Lake City 

airport was like being in an apocalyptic movie - 

the roads were 

empty and tons of planes were parked out on the tarmac.  

My heart hurt so badly for the Mexican people we left behind.  

They have so little and their incomes depend on the tourist 

industry, and literally overnight the city was emptied.  

This rock down on the beach below our house has always looked 

like a turtle (I didn't show the turtle's shell) or a lop-eared bunny, 

but this time we could see Ariel - in a tribute to the closed Disney parks. So much is changing so quickly, and without much 

notice.  We have no idea how our income will be 

impacted, and those of our children.  One daughter has 

already been laid off. 

We don't have to self quarantine, but we decided that since 

we were around so many passengers on the plane, we would 

stay away from people for awhile.  

My children with kids home from school are doing their 

best with homework and boredom.  The weather hasn't been 

great, so even though they could play outside, it hasn't been 

nice enough to.  We have decided no family dinners for

the next while.  We truly want everyone to isolate.

We have plenty of food and supplies with the exception of 

antiseptic wipes, but I got on YouTube and saw how to 

make those with a bleach solution and baby wipes or paper towels.  

You already know I love to cook, so that is enjoyable, but 

I will probably gain weight over this!  Haha.

Hubby is able to do his Bishop interviews over Facetime.  We 

can talk to the grandkids over Facetime too.  

How are you coping in this time unlike any we have seen?

We hope you are all well and stay safe.  Our business 

acquaintances in China said they learned to stay 

inside for 30 days and if you had to go out - keep 

your face covered.   

I will be posting with

Metamorphosis Monday 

and 

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