From the Golden Tulip

Well I have a lot to be grateful for today.

1. I made it to Jordan via Paris safely.  Despite flying through a storm (I thought someone had taken a picture with their flash in the middle of the night...until I heard the following thunder) we arrived well and whole, and only a little motion sick.
2. We found the shuttle to the hotel...no taxi fee.
3. Our room has a marvelous bed with2 fluffy, fluffy pillows each, we get free dinner and breakfast for the 2 nights we are here and I have been sleeping all day.
4. We in the hotel for 2 days.  This one is a bit odd because being in the hotel gives me ample opportunity to be homesick but I'm a little more than homesick.  Right before I left I caught some kind of head cold and the ability to sleep all day is doing marvelous things for getting over this cold.  Yay for healing!
5. The thing I am most grateful for is that the hotel has free WiFi.  The fact that Skype is a free internet calling service is also top on my list.  Because of this I got to video skype my family last night, and have chatted with them several times since then.  It has been a wonderful blessing. I am hoping I will have the same opportunity during the 3 weeks I am excavating but even it I don't, I will have the internet while I am staying in Amman.

So I am very, very grateful today.  Grateful for my family, grateful for some amazing opportunities that I am having, and most of all grateful to my Heavenly Father for His blessings, guidance and protection.  I definitely feel it most during times like this.