Library excitement

Friday 22nd May: Another unseasonally cold day with plenty more snow in NZ's high ground.
In the morning we played some board games and the boys did some painting tumblers. I made a fruit cake and pumpkin soup for lunch. The library rang to say Edward had won a competition so after lunch we walked there to collect his prize. Last Friday was Families Day in NZ and they had a competition where you had to guess the number of books in the library with 'family' and 'families' in the title. For Edward's Book Reader badge he had to find out about how books are arranged in the library and so he went straight to the computer, searched for the two words, added the two totals together and filled the entry form, then came to tell me about it! He won the prize for the "closest guess" with a 'guess' of 163 when there are in fact 163! His prize was a bottle of lemonade, a big bag of popcorn, a comic book story about Spitfires, chocolate, a book for Steve or I to read, plus two vouchers for the town's video/DVD rental store. He was very pleased with himself, and had his photo taken for the local paper.
At 4pm the boys and I were at the High School to coach the gymnasts again, then walked home in more drizzle for tea. The good news about this bad weather is that our sales of pine cones are going very well and the boys are happily depositing regular sums in the bank.
The photo is of the boys in the children's corner of the library.