Science, Swimming and Sinner... I mean Dinner

Today Z wanted to do a science project from her eco-science book, Planet Patrol, first thing after breakfast. We read about CO2 and how every mile you drive puts out around one pound of CO2. The experiment was only to track how far we drove that day and then do a one to one conversion.

But I made up someting more.

First I had Z write down all the place we usually go in a week or two - piano, voice, gymnastics, park, grocery, Target, friend's houses, grandma's houses, etc. Then using the new "Distance Measurement" feature in google maps she measured how many miles away all those places were by marking lines along the route and then multiplying by 2 for the ride home. Then she added up all the numbers, including some fractions, and came up with around 360 lbs of carbon dioxide that we would be putting into the air in a two week time (although we don't usually drive that much, but sometimes we might.)

Then we did the same thing for our new neighborhood and the classes I intend on enrolling her in and she got around 40lbs in two weeks. But we would be within walking distance of her grandma and we don't have any friends to visit there yet.

None of it was exact but I thought it taught her a few interesing things.


Then we drove (about 15 miles) to a friends house for swimming and snow cones. We are trying to visit all our friends as much as possible before we move.

Zoe was crying about it today. She wants to move but she is very sad about leaving her best friends. I told her that it is totally okay to feel that way. And I just held her. But we were very happy to hear that those friends are going to visiting near our new home in May. I invited them to stay over with us.

This evening we are having some special friends over for dinner - some of you know of E and E'sMom. Z is especially sad about "leaving behind" her friend E. Me too. But Pere will be able to work from anywhere and we plan to come back to L.A. often for long vacations.