Isn't Technology Grand!

Us sailing while video chatting with my ladies at Rush via Snapchat

FaceTiming while
anchoring

The other day, or maybe it was a few weeks ago, I don't know. It seems as though time is moving at a snails pace out here. Maybe because I'm just more relaxed and don't have much else to think about other than my own thoughts, which have thankfully moved from the autobahn lane into the medium-slow lane or things that are right in front of us. Either way, thankfully time seems to be moving more slow than it did on land. Because of this I feel that we are enjoying more moments, epically the little simple ones, with this slow pace.

Anyway, I digress. So, the other day or week, or whenever it was, Brady and I were able to live video with some of my favorite coworkers while we were sailing and they were at work!!! It was the coolest and just SO awesome to see their faces! It just made our day!! We also FaceTimed my brother and sister-in-law and one of our nieces and Brady's family right before her birthday party while out! 

Group FaceTime Shots

It's just so amazing how fast technology developed in the last 10 years! Last time I was on my travels, 10 years ago, cell phones were just becoming popular and I don't believe video chat was a thing yet. I remember having to send mass emails of my experiences to friends and family. Uploading pictures to send via email took at least 30 minutes on a good day to do! I still had a film camera so maybe that's why I wasn't uploading pictures! Haha. And the only people that I knew who had Facebook were friends I met when living abroad and you needed someone who had a profile to invite to join! It's amazing this time leaving home to be able to not think about the distance between us and our friends and family because of the wonderful technology we now have in our daily lives! Heck, I'm even writing this post, and getting cell service, while sailing in the middle of Lake Huron offshore to towns with populations of less than a thousand people. Hopefully, because of all this fancy technology that has become apart of our daily lives, when we finally reach our new home across  the country we don't feel all of the miles in between us and our amazing family and friends. That's definitely making this move a little bit easier and hopefully will keep the homesickness episodes a little less frequent.