Day 2: Skype

Yesterday I was busy most of the day so I didn't get a chance to post in my thankfulness Challenge, but yesterday I was thankful for SKYPE! Yes Skype. I got to talk to my mom and dad for a while and it was so good! I really needed to hear their voices. When I lived in Zambia we always said "We don't live in the middle of no where but we could see it from there." Well I DO live in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE now! If you Google directions from your house in the Lower 48 to our house here it will tell you "You can not get there from here" Yes it will! Try it! But if you take my parents who still live in Zambia(for another 2 weeks till they retire) and I live in Galena Alaska, we live almost exactly on the opposite side of the world! We are 11 time zones away and in opposite hemispheres. Most of the time the distance doesn't bother me so much but yesterday it did and being able to "see" them on the computer made my day! I don't know who invented SKYPE but whoever did gets my gratitude! I can't wait in 2 weeks my parents will be on this side of the world and only 3 time zones different then me and then I can actually call them on a real phone. But I do enjoy Skype because with the video they can see my crazy kids running around acting like monkeys or whatever. So thankfull for Skype that can provide a link from Alaska to Africa that can join families!