Thanks Google

So here and again I wake up and I'd pay anything for a simple afternoon back at my parents' house with all my siblings.  Obviously I miss them all the time, but these strong yearnings to truly physically be there are more random.

This morning I was emailing my parents, which I guess doesn't make the yearning random, and I really wanted to physically see our house, a house that had been my home for about 22 or so years.  Without a picture to look at because who takes pictures of their house, well at least I didn't, off to good ol' google we go.

With stalkerish/incredibly advanced technology that we have today you can do and see some pretty cool stuff.  When I search my parents address, zoomed in and got to the street level, this is what I got.

(1) This is creepy that I can actually get this close to their house simply using google.  (2)  This is cool and exactly what I needed to "feel" like I was at home again.  (3)  This is sublime to see my old whip/car/vehicle parked out front.  Which means I was literally inside the house!

I bought that car right before I headed off to college (for a measly 1250 bucks).  Oh how I loved that 89 4-door Dx Honda Civic.  All the experiences and struggles I had with that car.  But let's be honest, it's a Honda so I had very few struggles...pushing it for all it had to make it up a hill so me and 4 other full size men could go snowboard instead of sliding back down the road (while listening to some good ol' Ben Harper I might add), breaking down with 4 middle school boys during Disciple Now, getting my first kiss from Christine, changing car brakes for the first time, trips all over the place for just over 32mpg...boo koos of goodness to say the least.

Well it finally died about 2 weeks before I graduated with a bit over 215,000 miles.  Although Joel Pants and I had to push it down Providence Road for it's last haul at 10:30 at night I can easily classify it as a gem.

How did google know that I needed both, the car and the house in the same picture?  Or maybe google hasn't updated their street level pictures in oh I don't know, 3 years at least.  Either way I'm smiling.