and we have FINISHED.

Our last child has just walked out the door, the Leaders have left, I'm about to get on the train and all is well that ends well.

Thanks to our Grub Girls for such SCRUMMY food; thanks to the awesome Leaders for their total stickto-itiveness and laughs, and most of all, thanks to the kids. If you hadn't have been here, it would never have happened.

You guys ROCK. Libraries rock!

Rumble rumble rumble....

Those freight trains are really loud!

Jase has quietly toddled off for a wee sleep... no, we're NOT going to draw on him; we're not really that mean! PJ is lounging on the reference couch, JUST ABOUT to nod off. We could always draw on HIM. Christine is on checks, Wendy is doing mending (can you believe it?? I think it's just to keep her awake!) and I am bringing you this latest update.

Ta-da!

We found him

He was in the 600's - and still awake! I think maybe he thinks we're serious about doodling on him with pens.

Things are very quiet on the children front... somebody snores rather loudly! We do checks every 10 minutes, just to make sure things are as they should be.

Did you know I can't do long division?

It's 3am...

...and we've lost Jase! I think he's been swallowed up by the 400's section in the non-fiction. I wonder if we will find him curled up under the stacks, snoring? It's our mission to find him! And draw on him with vivid-marker if we can!

The heaters are rattling... it's cooling down a little. We had a sleepwalker! He wandered around a little bit and when Wendy gently asked him if he was okay, there was no reply. When she gently asked him if he was asleep, the answer was yes. He's all safely tucked up again now!

See what I can do with glowsticks??

Something to make you ponder during the midnight hour

If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half, in a day and a half, then how many golf balls must Elmer Fudd eat in order to lay an eight-by-four metre bicycle inner tube?

Think about it. I did... and it hurt.

Mine eyes are falling out mine head!

Nooooooo, not yet - it's going so smoothly... these kids are troopers!

I have decided to award Jase the "Best Dressing Gown" trophy... I'll try and get a sneaky photo of it when he's not looking; it's GREAT!

Well, I have to sneak off and watch some movie - having it up on the projector screen with surround (uh HUH!) is just like being at the movies.

Ciao for now!

ARRRE YOUUUUU READDDDYYYY??????

3 hours to go and counting!

Want to see one of the books we'll be reading at the Sleepover? OKAY!

Wendy being hard at work getting ready...

I'm sure she's working hard on the inside!

Working on the Blog

We're trying to get it all flash-as for you guys to look at tomorrow night!

For those of you who haven't heard of our Sleepovers, they started as part of the NZPost Book Awards activities. Us librarians and other cool staff know that books/libraries are definitely NOT boring, so we thought this was a fun way to celebrate them. 2007 is the third year of the Sleepover and there's no sign of things slowing down yet!

We follow the same timetable format (which we'll tell about as it happens tomorrow night - don't want to spoil things!), so watch out for the exciting blow-by-blow accounts as they happen.

You'll be getting posts all over the place, from all the Leaders, about all sorts of things - what we're doing, what we're reading, the games we're playing and the scrummy things we eat for supper (who said PIZZA??), so stay tuned, guys.

Counting down!

Sleepover tomorrow night!

How many hours is that?