New church building, Easter in Manitoba, and Flames Game

Well its been a while since we posted to the blog so I'll do a catch up post for March. First off you can see some pictures of our new church building (Taber Evangelical Free Church). When Lisa & I started going back about a year ago they had just purchased the building and were in the process of selling the old building. The old building sold very quickly to a Mennonite church from Vauxhall - so quickly that they agreed to buy it last summer and share it with us until the new building was ready! So finally we moved in - our first service was January 27th and the 0fficial opening was March 16th. We'll probably be working on the finishing touches for the next year but its a pretty amazing transformation of the old Home Hardware building.


Next was visiting family in Steinbach, MB for Easter. We arrived Friday night and left Sunday night after diner. A quick visit but still very worth it since I'm approaching my busy season at work and won't be able to travel until fall. We got to play with our niece for a bit. Below are a few pictures from the visit.


And to round it out we went to a Calgary Flames game! It was the Tuesday after Easter. So after traveling over 2500kms round trip to Manitoba we headed out the next day to Calgary and back (600kms round trip). It was a long drive back (getting home at 1:30am Wednesday) but it was definitely worth it. I won the tickets from a raffle by Taber Minor Hockey to raise funds for the provincials in Peace River (about 1000kms north of Taber). These weren't just any tickets - they were Top Shelf. Donated by a local business man they included premium parking, full diner before the game (with the president of the Flames coming by to answer any question anyone dared to ask), and premium seats behind the goalie. If you have a lot of money you can buy these tickets anytime for only $600 each. That's not a typo. I really meant six-hundred. Each. Amazing time and they won too! It was a playoff style game as they are vying for the top and they were playing a team (Vancouver Canucks) that is also vying for the top.