For our first summer mutual activity we went to the Chinese Temple in Oroville on a tour and I took our family. It was very interesting and in great shape. Everyone should go check it out. There was this fun bamboo for taking pictures in. They had fish in a pond outside and were not happy because there were turtles eating the fish. They wanted the turtles out so Terry took it upon himself to catch them so the trip quickly turned into a Turtle rescue.
Everyone thought they were so cool and wanted to take them home. They were very happy to oblige so one of my Laurels took one and we ended up with the other one.
No one was happier than Tayla! Who knew she loved turtles!
However, when we got him home we put him in a cooler with water and bricks to climb on to get out of the water and some lettuce and watermellon rines. It wasn't good enough for him and he kept trying to climb out of it and ended up on his back and couldn't turn over. After the 10th time of flipping him over we let him out on the grass and he did everything in his power to get out of our yard. He was trying to dig under the fences and everything. Finally we decided that he just wasn't going to make it at our house.
So we took him out to Grey Lodge and let him go. Tayla cried all the way there and begged and pleaded to keep him. No matter what we said she wasn't consoled.
As she put him down and he ran for the water and took off swimming, she was ok with it, but still not happy and convinced that we needed to go to the pet store and get her a new one. Lucky for me, I think she's forgotten about it now and we're off the hook.
2 comments:
What a great story!! I can't believe you didn't mention in yesterday. I think Tayla's going to talk you into a pet one way or the other.
What a nice, short lived little pet story. Fun experience and no harm done.
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