Concerts & Drivers Licenses

This past weekend the kids had a 'mini' tour down Vancouver way. They did a concert at New Westminster, Vancouver on friday evening. Then one for church in Hope on Saturday, then a final concert in Merritt on Saturday night - after which we drove home the 2 hour drive.


These concerts had quite a few new songs which we hadn't heard them sing before at a concert - it was great. The quartet did a few numbers this round - Kyle really enjoyed it.

On Friday morning we headed down to Vancouver early so Kyle could get his drivers license. Canada and NZ have an agreement which you can 'swap' your license over - which is what Alistair and I did. Kyle had his NZ Restricted, but as you can't get your learners till you are 16 here we weren't sure weather they would swap it over for what they call their "N's" - which is equavilent to Restricted - or if he would have to start from scratch here.. Over here they can't get their restricted (or N's) till you are 17, which you then have for 2 years and go for your full at 19 - it's a bit of a process. Well they swapped his license over and put him 6 months into his 'N', which means he can get his full license when he is 17 and a 1/2. All the guys here are soooooo jealous - it is so funny. It was the talk of the weekend.
So Kyle is back driving. He hasn't driven since we got here in July last year, so he is rapped. We did have the wipers going instead of the indicators a few times (they are on opposite sides here), but other than that it was good. We haven't let him drive in the snow yet - thought we better let him get use to driving on the other side of the road first!

We got another layer of snow on Sunday, but it has mostly melted, so now we have slush everywhere.

Alistair's Mum headed back to NZ last week. It was nice to have her come stay even though it was only for 2 weeks. We are trying to talk her into coming again in summer.

This week is week of prayer here. The speakers were meant to arrive on Sunday but they got denied entry at the border - because she was on her phone trying to find the email they asked to see - can you believe it. Talk about power trip! She was using her cell phone to find the email which said they were doing this week of prayer and the guy said to her 'don't you have anything better to do at the border than play on your cell phone' - she tried to explain what she was doing, but he wouldn't listen!! He told her she wouldn't be entering Canada today! So someone from the school had to drive the 3 hour trip to take a 'hard copy' of the letter and give it to them, so they could give it to customs and they were finally allowed in.
And Alistair wonders why I get so nervous crossing the border - they have soooo much power.

Well I better go get my beauty sleep. Alistair, Cassidy and Jordan are up at 4.30am tomorrow to go delivery carrots in Vancouver