56: Happy New Year!

Happy 2021! New Year’s Eve plans, Joy’s Graves’ disease updates, listener voice memos! SPONSORED BY BLUBLOX discount code JOY www.joyandclaire.com email: [email protected] instagram: joyandclaire_ Joy: Hey guys, this is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: Joy and Claire. It’s 2021, happy New Year! Claire: Welcome to 2021. Joy: Welcome. We are so glad that our voices are in your ears for 2021. Hopefully it’s been good so far. It’s only the 4th when we’re recording this. Nothing terrible has happened yet. I know we’re all kind of holding our breath. Claire: Oh my gosh, I know. I know. We’ve just got to wait and see. We’re a whole week into the year. How was your New Year? What did you do? Joy: It was great. How was your New Year’s Eve? Because we did the same thing basically. Claire: I know. Joy: How did you like your drive-thru light situation? In case you missed last week’s [episode], Claire and I both went to this light show where you go through this drive-thru display – Claire: Parking lot basically. Joy: – of lights. And it’s really cute. And they have the lights orchestrated to a radio channel that’s playing Christmas music, so it’s really cute. I thought it was great. We drove in and no one was there. And the second we got in, tons of cars came behind us. We were like, oh my gosh, we just missed it. But it was so great. It was super cute. The lights were fun. You kind of drive through this dome of lights. Claire: Yeah, like a tunnel? Joy: Yeah, like a tunnel of lights.  Claire: I have a feeling that they were probably the exact same set up. Except that – okay, we went to the one at Water World. And it was sort of unclear. So Water World has two entrances, a north one and an east one. And Google Maps just automatically takes you to the north one. Well the north entrance was a COVID testing site. Joy: Oh no. [laughing] Claire: So we got stuck in this – if you’ve been to a drive-thru COVID testing – Joy: Oh yeah, we have them in our business. Claire: It’s just a maze of cones and lines.  Joy: You can’t get through, yeah. Claire: So you can’t get through. We had to spend five minutes, or more than that, just navigating this COVID testing. And as we were pulling in, I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is so funny. It looks like a COVID testing site.” Then I was like, “This is a COVID testing site.” We went to the wrong side of the parking lot. Because it just looked like there were cars lining up, and the lights were right there. We couldn’t tell the lights were on the other side. Joy: The question is how many people have done that. Claire: Right, a thousand. Because when we got up to the front and got to the guy, we were like, “We’re sorry, we’re here for the lights.” The ten cars in front of us had done the same thing. He was like, “Alright, go over there, turn around.” It just wasn’t well marked. Joy: You’re like, “This was not on the ticket.”