Botany Library pics 2

Retail zone and shelving areas

Shelving/Computer room/Conference room/Study room

Retail area/Shelf check machines

What the upstairs used to look like. It's been redone since this pic

Check-in room when there was only one computer. There is now two, so it's spaced differently. What you can't see are all the shelving units and trollies full of items. :-)

Botany Library pics 1

View at magazines and stairwell. The small desk on the left are what we call and "Ask Me" point. It's a staff machine to help customers with anything except check-out. There are 3 of them around the library.

Computer room and small conference room on right

Children's books

Where you pay and some of the dvds

View from in mall looking at library and coffee shop

Family Circus

Focus Family Camp

Here is the photo of most of our family camp group. We had a weekend of "Think Orange" fun, laughter, worship, and fellowship.

New Year

Happy New Year, my friends.

Uncle Jeremy, I'm going to kill you!!

I know that's probably not your normal statement during Christmas, but that's what I heard on Christmas here. We spent our holiday in Rotorua again. We drove down on Friday afternoon. Saturday morning we woke up with the kids ready to see their stockings. Emily (7), Grace (3), Orrin (1). We opened the stockings and gifts there, and Anna made us a fabulous breakfast. We then lunched at her mom's house with more gift unwrapping. After an afternoon nap, we all piled in to go the farm of Anna's brother for a BBQ. While he and his wife finished the milking there was a huge nerf gun fight. Everyone was involved (other than grandma who was busy inside). Em was the one who yelled, "Uncle Jeremy, I'm going to kill you!" It was amusing to watch everyone run around shooting each other hiding around cars and jumping into paddock to find darts.

On Sunday, we had a nice walk on a boardwalk watching black swans. We then went to Jer's favorite restaurant Cafe Ephesus. After several meltdowns by this point another nap was needed. I made some risotto for dinner and we just hung out around the house.

Monday we packed up and I drove Jer to Lake Karapiro so he could camp. He will be back on Thursday.

Christmas Presents #1

So, we decided not to open our gifts on Christmas Day as we won't be home and don't want to take them down with us to Rotorua. We exchanged one gift today.

I got a water bag (with bladder) and some Lush body wash and face soap.

Jer got a Nerf N-Strike Deploy CS-6

Naturally I've been shot a lot. No rest of the weary...