The Newsboys Concert

Most years we are at the International Plowing  Match over David's birthday, for the whole week so it's very hard to do much celebrating besides buying a poutine, so this year, since we weren't at the Plowing Match I got to pull off a few surprise celebrations. We were scheduled to be in Brantford doing a Teacher Training weekend, so it worked out perfectly when I discovered the Newsboys were having a concert in London after the training was finished. The Newsboys have been one David's favourite groups (although he confesses to being a  true DC Talk fan.) The concert included 8 other music groups.

 We arrived an hour early to get good seats...and ended up waiting in line 3 1/2 hours because two of the semi trucks with all the equipment got stuck at the border for 2 hours. So, Johnny Diaz came out a did a spontaneous performance and worship time about 15 feet from us. That was pretty cool.

 A fun part about the day was that we got to hang out with our "daughter", Belle. We were each planning to go to the concert without knowing the other was attending. It made our extra long wait fun because we got to visit with her.

 They certainly have some amazing props as the robotic arms move up and around with the guitar player and keyboard player.

So, besides getting to sleep far past our bedtime, we had a lot of fun. It was the first concert we've ever been to together...it took 4+ years to make it happen!