first blog of our trip!

so here we sit in the vancouver airport (from here on in, i will affectionately call it http://www.yvr.com/, for those of you not familiar with air lingo). our flight doesn't leave til 1 am. the kids were bored..surprise surprise..so our first stop: starbucks, of course. :)

from there we walked the halls of the domestic terminal then decided to head to security, as we saw the line-up for PAL (philippine airlines) was, no joke, a good city block. whoa. good thing we were flying CATHAY!

we meandered thru security where i successfully pegged caleb in the eye with my bag as i whipped it over my shoulder, and he was standing close to me asking why i kept beeping.(i was the last of us four to get thru security cuz of what else? my silver jewelry and dead rockstars belt)... giggle.. poor son.. he did, however recover quite nicely... :)

we found our gate - gate 54 - altho there is a pic of gate 53...cuz it was a pretty picture...ya, ya.. we are currently in gate 66 right across from 54 tho, where there is no one, and is much more peaceful...gate 54 has a child's play area..and children playing on there at this ungodly hour at an airport = headache before we ever get off the air..caleb playing his PSP..jonathan texting on his phone some profound thoughts..rosie showing me the way her hair can go in this new way to do a bun..and me..well, i am on my macbook... :)

so probably the next time you will hear from us is when we arrive in the city of manila, the land we used to call home..and where we wont stop sweating til we get home.

goodnight!!

rosie's pretty excited, i'd say.. :)

written yesterday and left on my bedroom dresser.. :)

destination = philippines!

at the end of last year, jonathan got asked by the church we planted with his dad and 3 other pastors - church of god makati - in the philippines, to come and do a conference this june as a part of their 10 year anniversary.







then jonathan's dad asked if the kids and i would like to come too, as he had airmiles for us all.. so we are!!

in fact, we leave TOMORROW and are all very excited about it!! our flight on the ever satisfying asian airline, CATHAY PACIFIC, leaves actually 1am on monday..so we'll be at the airport tomorrow night! we have a few mini trek's planned, (boracay and then subic bay) along with some stuff at the church while we are there. we even get to stay for the afternoon/evening in hong kong so it will awesome to take the kids thru there!!

if you come here to my personal photo blog while we're away, you will see that i am posting photos and snippets from our trip every day we're there! so bookmark it and check it out often.

bon voyage!
the heppner's

the annual BFF weekend.. :)

so it turns out erin and i have spent the last two may long weekends together on the island..i feel a tradition comin on.. :)

we left tsawwassen on the 3pm ferry..ate some yummy clam chowder and fries with gravy.. hee hee..took pics outside.. ya..pretty much crazy girls!

she graciously assisted me in my wedding on saturday.. good fun!! we saw some of my old youth camp friends in the evening, and then my high school friend, genea, made us THE most incredible breakfast on sunday! we decided on sun to go home via the malahat drive, and thru duncan, stopped in chemanius, and then to nanaimo over to horseshoe bay..

so here's some crazy pics of our trip.. :)

fun with letters..

found this on fun with flickr.. :)

kinda a time waster!