Tina, Smitty and Steven

One of my dear friends came for a quick visit at the end of July. Tina and I became friends back in the late 90s when we worked together at one of the best places on earth, Red Rock Bible Camp. Tina now lives in New Zealand and has been there for a few years. She was just back in Winnipeg for a visit, and lucky for me, she planned a layover through Vancouver on her way back to NZ!! We packed as much as we could into 2 days and had a wonderful time catching up (we figured it's been at least 5 yrs since we've seen each other), sightseeing and playing photographer with our respective SLR's! (Tina's quite an amazing photographer).

Here are a few quick highlights of our time! We went and checked out Cascade Falls, near Mission BC (i stole this picture of the two of us from Tina)

And then headed up to the Monastery (in Mission) to get a view of the valley

Now, one of the highlights of MY weekend was planned way before Tina decided to come to visit. Pam, Theresa and I had tickets to the EPIC Steven Curtis Chapman/Michael W Smith concert that was coming to Abbotsford. It just so happened that Theresa couldn't shake the flu in time, so Tina joined us for the concert...while she isn't the MWS/SCC fan that I (secretly) am, I think she still had a good time!! Anyway, i was very excited because we had row 5 tickets and though the lighting made it difficult to take good pictures, i think Pammer snapped a few!
Here's Pammer and I

And Tina and I

Steven was great!But I was most excited for Smitty!!

And he looked very handsome from my row 5 seat :)

Yay! what a fun concert! and what a fun weekend!! Thanks for visiting Tina!