Earth Hour

Earth hour this year was March 28th at 8:30. At my house we switched off the main breaker to live without electricity for one full hour. I think the kids lit every candle I had in the house including fitting as many candles as possible onto a plate. By the end of the hour it was one giant candle, and some of the middle flames were flooded out.

So what do you do for an hour with no electricity? I enjoyed the complete silence. The kids and I also sat around and made life lists. Things we want to do during our life.

Tim's list

• Learn to Kick flip
• Get pilot's license
• Go to My Chemical Romance concert
• Save a life
• Put a bad guy in jail
• Drink diet coke with Mentos in mouth
• Set a world record
• Sky dive
• Ride a roller coaster
• Build a skate park
• Visit a fortune teller
• Make a sculpture
• Learn fencing
• Get ears and nose pierced
• Go snowboarding
• Go to a skate camp
• Learn how to swallow fire
• Get a tattoo
• Learn magic
• Surf board
• Learn Japanese

Kara's list (warning she is very ambitious)

• Learn to skateboard
• Get a minister's license
• Visit different churches every Sunday for a few months
• Build houses in Haiti
• Get a pilot's license
• Backpack across Europe or S. America
• Go on a cruise
• Go to Mecca
• Work with bees
• Go to a concert
• Run a marathon
• Change a life
• Volunteer at the Red Cross
• Set a world record
• Master fast shoe tying
• Try pie
• Go on Aftershock (a roller coaster)
• Buy a banzai tree
• Visit a fortune teller
• Learn fencing
• Read the 2nd Harry Potter
• Make a sculpture
• Visit Wall Street stock market
• Get ears pierced
• Ice Skate
• Snowboard
• Go to summer camp
• Learn to cook
• Work at Renaissance fair
• Write a book
• Read all Holy Books (Bible, Koran, etc.)
• Sell Jewelry
• Get a tattoo
• Be a street performer
• Learn to juggle
• Be a storm chaser
• Learn magic
• Live in Spanish speaking country for 6 months.
• Surf board
• Go to Japan
• Donate blood
• Publish a photograph
• Ziplining
• Make own clothes
• Go to circus

My List

• Go white river rafting
• Have my fortune told
• Visit Washington DC
• Write a book
• Take kids to all 50 states
• Try surf boarding
• Finish my Master's degree
• Learn how to sail
• Live in a foreign country
• Find a hobby that I am passionate about
• Travel through Europe
• Swim in the Mediterranean Sea
• Vacation at an Ashram
• Take a belly dancing class
• Straighten Tim's hair (done--see picture below)
• Try oil painting (Bob Ross style)
• Testify as an expert in congress
• Spend an entire day at a wild meadow next to a small stream (my happy place)
• Ziplining
• Scuba dive