One Saturday afternoon in July, Lily and I went on our own walk while Michal Marco took his afternoon nap. Our little walk turned into quite the adventure. Upon our return home I saw something grab my attention from the corner of my eye - so Lily and I went to investigate and we saw a small, slow turtle just wandering around on the road. We blocked it from two cars until deciding it would take all day to coerce it to return to the forest. So we picked it up and helped it on its journey. It really wasn't that thrilling or exciting, but Lily was over-the-moon with how bewildering and thrilling it was to move a turtle.
After her initial excitement, she became brave and decided to venture closer and closer to her new turtle friend. She watched it closely and carefully until it made its way far enough from the road that she was satisfied that our friend would be safe and would not get squished by a car.
We later found out that because of how wet it has been this summer, it has caused an increase of turtles leaving their natural habitat in search of some less wet areas. At least we were able to save one turtle, and I'm grateful for the excitement and lesson that it taught Lily.
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