Local Heroes!

We've had a great time with our "Lunch with a Local Hero" series of storytimes. Yesterday Staff Sargeant Zalewski came for a visit and showed us some of her pictures from Iraq. She had money (funny shapes!), newspapers, and coloring books our soldiers made for the kids there. We've got copies in the Children's Room.

She told us that it's very hot and dusty there in the summer - MUCH hotter than it is here. But it gets cold in the winter. They had to wait in long lines for the food, and it wasn't very good. She also showed us pictures of a sandstorm (you have to look VERY closely to see that there's even a truck in the picture) and camels, which are cool even though they stink and they spit. Luckily they didn't spit on her!