Letters

Bob's still busy, so it's me again...Mary Jo said a package of letters came today. She was at the post office when I talked to her and she was dropping in the mai as we spoke. Watch your mailboxes!

We got a letter from Riley on Monday. It seems he and his tour partner (Joe K.) were prompted by their hosts to write home. I love their hosts! He mostly wrote a silly letter home in response to the silly letter I had previously written him (we used Elizabethan-type wording). At one point in his letter he wrote, "Mine facial stubbery has grown to a point that it is almost visible to the eye, but not enough so that His Majesty John Fitzgerald notices and sentences me to the razor. Oh, I doth quell at the thought!"

No specific mention of what he had done or how he was enjoying his tour, but he sounds very happy so I'm sure he's having a great time. Likely all the boys are.

We also got mail from a host of Riley's in France on Monday. It was addressed to Monsier Riley LinDell, but I couldn't stand it and had to open it. It was a newspaper clipping of an article and a big photo of the boys' concert in Sarraguimines.

Last night we received the pictures at the top of this post from Riley and Joe's hosts in St. Florian. She said they live only 2 minutes from the St. Florian monastery so the boys were able to get a lot of sleep and that the boys got ice cream to celebrate the birthday of Mr. Farnberger (St. Florian choir's director). It's so good to hear news of our boys!