Highlights from the tea...

Tonight was the Tampa city-wide women & teen girls tea at Celebration! It was amazing! I'm on a cloud and don't want to come down. So just leave me here. :)

Two of our Celebration members who are professional photographers took a ton of photos but they are not ready to publish them online yet so all I have are the few I took with my iPhone in between everything else I did which included speaking. :)

Here are some highlights of the night...

Most of all, hearts were touched...lives were changed. That's what it's about even more than tea.

** Update below with some photos from Dinah Velasquez of Dinah-mite Photos **

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