He's justifiably proud of his part in it.

Absolutely.

According to his IG, Riley is cruising in Jamaica. I hope he realizes how lucky he is to have these opportunities. I suspect he does.

Oh I'm sure he does!

It seems some of those opportunities involve going along with his dad on tour. Not every father would be willing to take that on.

It probably helps that Riley is a good kid - and he's old enough now he can manage himself.

It's still hard to believe that he's 16 years old.

And taller than me. :lol: Granted most men are taller than me. So are quite a few women. But still it's hard to think about when seeing his name typed out always brings S1 Ralph to my mind.

Same here. And this may make me sound like a bit of a cougar - or worse - but you can tell he's going to be a knockout when he's old enough to not be jailbait. Combine the looks with the sweet nature and terrific values and he'll be hard to resist.

I can't say I'm entirely comfortable talking that way about a teenager much less one that's currently sixteen years old.

Saw that Riley's dogs died. :(

Oh, that's sad. Losing any pet is difficult, but two at the same time must be devastating.

Yeah, and one he said was young and got sick. Obviously losing an older pet is still hard, but I know from very recent personal experience how much easier it is to be at peace with it when you know they lived a good long life.

That's very true. We lost one dog when I was about 10 years old and he was only 4. Of course, at 10 I was pretty upset about it, but it still gets to me even now sometimes. We also had a poodle that had kidney failure at 7. I was about 26 for that one and my mother called me at work to tell me. I wound up having to take a cab home.

We have lost one horse young (6) and our childhood cats as well (my sister's, Fluffy, was 8 and mine, Julie, was 9). The cats were littermates and Julie had a respiratory problem, so I have no idea how Julie lived 15 months longer than Fluffy. But neither of them were old. And Fluffy didn't even show any signs, just went to her box to sleep and didn't wake up.