Earth Hour

Earth Hour was on March 28th this year.  The purpose of Earth Hour is to raise environmental awareness.  It is on a Saturday Night at 8:30 pm.  To participate all you had to do was turn off your lights for one hour.  We participated as a family by shutting off the breaker to our home for the hour.  

During that hour we:

• lit the fireplace for the first time in our new house (we've lived here almost a year)
• had a candle light dinner 
• told ghost stories 
• played with flashlights
• sat around the fire and Grannie played the guitar while Zoe played the violin (of course!!)
• part of the time Pops played on the laptop (battery power only) and Papaw snoozed on the sofa 

Zoe's first reaction to turning off the lights for an hour was not great.  She was really whiny and pretty much a drama queen about being afraid of the dark, but after the first few minutes she was just peachy.  She really enjoyed the story telling and sitting around playing music.  When we got ready to turn the lights back on she even cried!  She didn't want it to be over.  Now she wants to have Earth Hour every week....we're gonna try!!!

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