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Imagine for a moment you're on a dream vacation, a trip decades in the making.

This has been on our bucket list, on my bucket list, since before we got married.

I told him, I said, I would really love to go to Hawaii one of these days.

And so after 37 and a half years, we finally made it.

That's Pam. Pam and her husband Tim made it to Hawaii on a cruise ship called the Grand

Princess. But on the way back home, suddenly something changed. After lunch,

they asked us to go back to our rooms and then they started the quarantine. The reason for this,

as we now know, is the highly contagious new coronavirus otherwise known as COVID-19. According to

reports, about two dozen people of the more than 3,500 on board tested positive for the virus.

They are providing exercise videos, counseling if you like it by phone, you know, just to try to alleviate some of the stress. They're delivering

some crafts and some puzzles to keep your mind active. And of course, we can get caught up on

all the movies that we want to. So one of the movies they watched, Alcatraz, about the famous prison built on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, an ironic metaphor as the cruise ship and island onto itself drifted in that same body of water.

After their quarantine began on Thursday, Pam and Tim were finally allowed outside once on Monday morning for 30 minutes.

They were keeping us apart, two meters, which is about, what, whatever, six feet.

They wanted us distance when we were walking around out there.

And shortly after Tim shared that with us, this is what happened during our conversation.

Excuse me, I'm sorry, there, Ben, Yasman.

Also, those of you who are currently doing the Fresh Air Program, again, as we knock on your door,

please make sure you have your mask on.

Also, remember, if you're doing part of the Fresh Air program to keep your social distance spacing,

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