Volunteering for Earth Day

This year for Earth Day the girls and I went to The Living Planet Aquarium and cleaned up trash.  We started at 3:15pm and ended at 5:20pm.  My girls worked so hard and were the youngest kids there.  The other kids were all in jr high and high school.  It was a great experience for all of us.  We all split up into groups and my little girls picked up 3 bags of trash; weighing 23.5lbs, 14lbs and 5lbs.  We picked up over 50 cigarette butts and so much other trash.  Victoria said that it was the best day ever.  After we cleaned up we had a snack and then went through the aquarium.  It was just a lot of fun meeting these other kids and the volunteers at the Aquarium.  What an experience it was for my girls.

Before cleaning

The girls with Kim (aquarium volunteer)

Weighing a trash bag

In a ravine picking up trash and snail shells

Aquarium volunteer

Our group....awesome group

The Leonardo Museum

We purchased a membership at The Leo.  It is the best hands on science musem ever.  The girls get to animate, walk in prosthetic legs, draw on the computer using paint brushes, see how their skeleton moves on a TV screen with their bodies, visit different places on Earth, look at demographics in Utah and then they have an art studio where they are resident artists.  They held a members only Graffiti Art demo.  The resident artist at The Leo and an street artist came in to show us different types of graffiti.  It was awesome.  Louis was helping Elizabeth with her art so he did not do one with us.  It was a lot of fun to do this activity with our family.

Out of this world opportunity

Because of the girls being on TV making a plight to Utah viewers on KSL about saving endangered animals...Utah's Hogle Zoo invited the girls to feed the Giraffes.  When I told Victoria at first that the zoo had something special for us she said, "are they giving us money for the World Wildlife Fund?"  She never asked for anything for her just for the animals.  I love this little girl.  So, we met Holly and she introduced the girls to Riley (male) and the 3 females; Kipenzie, Daffney and can't remember her name (she was not very friendly).  They had long tongues and would use them to get the crackers and bread.  The girls were a little scared of their tongues at first and then it was all good.  Holly showed them a skull and talked to them about awesome facts.  A Giraffe tongue is purple so it does not get sunburned.  We are hoping the Kipenzie is pregnant with Riley's baby again.

Riley

Riley

Kipenzie

Daffney