only real miserable part of the trip so far is with wife's adopted parents -- they aren't vaxxed, so he's the only set of parents out of 3 that hadn't met baby. we told them before we came that we'd be fine if they took at home tests when we got there if they wanted to hold him or whatever, which apparently her mom said was fine. we get to their house, her dad's not home, but her mom takes the test, negative, cool, she takes the baby. he comes home and my wife is like "hey shove this swab up your nose" and the dude straight up refuses. says "we'd get the same result if we ran it under the faucet"
he's kind of an asshole (maga dude who is, obviously, extremely anti-vax) but he's generally been nice to me (and has even taken the time to hear out to some of my SOCIALIST TALKING POINTS OH GOD), and he's done a ton for her, so i'm not really gonna push it, though i did take a shot at him for it when he was trying to talk to me about his campaign for state senate (which he is running in as an independent)
just sucks because i know my wife wanted him to be able to chill with baby. we went back over there for dinner last night and as we left she told me she was bummed that he acted sort of cold to him. just sort of a shitty situation
