But the thrill was short-lived.
Jo got in and was able to enter her information, but when she clicked to book the appointment, she found herself bounced back to the digital waiting room, where her wait time jumped from 40 minutes to 656 minutes and everywhere in between.
"I did that for two hours," said Jo. Neither she nor her husband, both 67 and residents of Holden, were able to book appointments.
Thursday marked the rollout of the state's new digital waiting room, which put residents seeking COVID vaccination appointments into a virtual "queue" to book the 50,000 new slots at the state's mass vaccination sites that went live that morning.