WhatsApp works too. OT but WhatsApp makes it easy to send dozens of pix at a time.
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Love WhatsApp. I can’t believe we can have video calls with our son overseas and it doesn’t cost a penny. Remember the days when you had to buy the airmail envelopes for overseas letters, to reduce the cost of postage?? Wow.
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And you’d write on tissue paper, and use both sides, and sometimes up the margins??
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I loved those blue mailers.
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Yes! I remember that! Wasn’t it vellum paper?
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Not for Bob. He’s done 20 TransAtlantic crossings.
It’s clearly his, “thing.”
They are seeing Les Mis in London. Something he did three times just with Wife #4 to whom he was married only 7.5 years. The CCRC did a feature article in their quarterly magazine on him, and this was mentioned toward the end of that article.
I think Bob is definitely a creature of habit. I actually wonder if he may be on the spectrum. He seems to have some Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory traits to me. Of course, I have only been around him three hours, and I am in no way credentialed to be making a diagnosis.
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Well, yay for Dad’s Lady Friend! This was the week my sister and I, along with her kids, were going to tell Dad that there will be alcohol and dancing at the wedding. Lady Friend decided to tell him herself!! She has already told him bluntly that she’s going to drink even though he doesn’t. 
She told my sister that he was disappointed but he’s OK with it. I thought that was very sweet and smart of her to do. Dad certainly wouldn’t blow up at her, and now he’ll have time to process it. He’ll eat dinner with my sister tonight, so we’ll see how that goes. I told her to remember that this is not up for discussion and that she shouldn’t apologize or justify. She’s not 15, although I’ve realized that the church we grew up in definitely infantilizes people.
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In cleaning up my mother’s things, I found a whole tote bag of the blue letters my sister sent home from Germany the year she was on study abroad (1975?). I can count 8 places my mother lived since the address on those letters (maybe more) and she kept them all. I gave them all to my sister so she could relive the good old days. And because I’m cleaning out such things!
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Well, sounds fairly positive. Anyway, I suspect you will all hear more when she’s ready to share.
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Hmmm… I’d reply like that if I were on the fence about “having fun.”
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At least she didn’t say “it’s interesting.”
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lol exactly what I thought - “interesting “ often = not good!
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It does sound a bit “neutral,” that she isn’t raving about Bob or more effusive. Maybe all the togetherness time and novelty isn’t wearing as well as she had hoped?!?!?
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Or maybe she’s not ready/too busy/doesn’t feel like it/whatever to share more.
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It’s so hard to read that because a very old person might think that is a very positive answer. But someone from Gen X might need an exclamation point or two, and a Millennial might think that using the word “great” or using punctuation at all is “passive aggressive” (really someone told me that).
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My kids do complain that I am very direct without emotion when I text.
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Nothing to do but wait and see.
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Ditto. She didn’t say “we’re having a great time”. The word experience is the key to how I think she feeling. It’s a polite way of saying “it’s ok”.
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Her response, “it’s a great experience” may not even relate to Bob. She may be commenting on the ship, the activities, the food, the entertainment -maybe her comment isn’t about Bob at all.
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