World Congress of Reading, Auckland, New Zealand, Summer 2000

Enjoy the pictures below from a tour of New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, organized by Betty Yarborough. Click on the thumbnail to view at full size.

The next World Congress will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the summer of 2002.

1. VSRA and IRA members Donna Moody, Carmelita Williams, and Nancy Davenport visit a booth. 2. Nancy and Donna enjoy an author lunch with Pat Edwards. 3. Norfolk State University presented a session attended by Carmelita Williams.

4. A group dinner in New Zealand. 5. The group visits a Maori meeting hall in New Zealand. 
6. View from a mountain in Christchurch, New Zealand.

7. We did NOT do bungee jumping! 8. Geysers in Rotorua, New Zealand. 9. Volcanic crater in Auckland, New Zealand.

10. Harbor view of Auckland, New Zealand. 11. Group shot with bridge and opera house in Sydney.

12. Bondi Beach in Sydney. 13. We went by the Olympic site.

14. Donna petting a wombat in Sydney. 15. We saw kangaroos in the zoo and in the wild. 16. Koalas in Sydney.