Right now my cell phone is burning up! Well, not literally but figuratively!
I have one daughter who's been touring Europe for 2 weeks. Her teenage daughters were cruising before that for 2 weeks (they'll have been gone 1 month).
I also have another daughter who just left yesterday to travel out West from Colorado to California. She's camping and will be gone for 2 weeks.
Between the two of them my phone is constantly beeping. They send me videos, pictures, you name it from everywhere they are and are going.
It feels like I'm right there with them! I could never keep up with them though. The daughter in Italy right now walked a bridge for 8.5 miles! She said in the bridge were jewelry stores the entire way. It sounded amazing...that was 2 days ago.
The one camping everywhere just sent a video of Utah and the landscape (absolutely beautiful).
The daughter in Naples was so upset. She said it was the filthiest place she'd ever been. She said there are needles and feces in the streets. She is there to see the amazing fresco and statues. She's sending me pictures.
We traveled all over Europe with them when my husband was alive but we didn't go to Naples for that reason. She said it was sad that so many beautiful things were in such a terrible place. But some of it is owned by the same families since the 16th century. They charge to see it.
I figured I should post this (accolades on the virtues of cellphones) since I recently have been boo hooing about the loss of privacy with the invention of Smart TV's and (you guessed it....cell phones). Ha!
I never take for granted the way my youngest daughter calls me and we do face time. She holds up the phone so I can feel what she's experiencing as she visits every baseball field in the country....Hummm??
I've experienced (for just a minute or two along with her) so many concerts across the country, football games, places I'd never be able to physically go any longer. It's fun and it helps us keep in touch. It feels like she's never left home even though she just turned 38 years old.
I think I sound like an add for iphones! It's because I'm telling people who don't have cell phones where they can do face time, to get one! It's worth every penny and it helps you keep in touch with family.
I've had one since they first came out. I gripe and complain about them (see above) but I wouldn't give it up for anything.
My family is my life! I'm sure you people feel the same way. My friend could afford to get an iphone or similar. Yet she keeps saying, "I wouldn't know how to work it'.
That's a cop out! I often get asked by people, "How do you know how to connect to the internet? How do you know how to do this or that with the gadgets?"
I say (holding up my index finger), "You see this finger?" They say, "Yes! Of course I do".
I say, "I take this finger and touch buttons. I read what to touch and when to touch it, then I touch the button. Magic happens then".
Really! It doesn't take smarts to get connected to the internet or to figure out how to make 'things' work.
I just wish more people (my friend included) would take the leap and join in. There's magic out there people! Ha!
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