Who would think a new electronic gizmo could make 2 people laugh and enjoy a late evening so much?

Let me begin by explaining that I bought the Echo Dot, after seeing the advertisements on TV.  Got it home and we all had fun with it over Christmas.

But like all new gadgets it has sat on the shelf with little use since the holidays. Then I realized I could listen to audio books on it so up to our bedroom it went.

Last night as I told Alexa (the voice of Echo Dot) to wake me at 8 am and to play ocean sounds until I fell asleep, my husband enter the room and decided to have Echo play music.  For the next two hours we went from DooWhop through the 50s, 60s, 70s and then continued to reexamine our memories of Music Appreciation Classes with The Grand Canyon Suite, the Painted Desert to Peter and The Wolfe.  Our toes were dancing on the sheets and our voices were singing along to all our high school love songs.

Even this late in our years my retired groom manages to show me a fun date night.  It didn’t cost a cent and there was no need to worry about what to wear or even put on make up.  Oh yeah, he did run down stairs to get some wine.

Unexpected date nights seem to be the norm as these retired grandparents look forward to retiring to bed earlier and earlier these days.