Ironic Again

So Ryan and I completed our "Day of Service" last week for our Disneyland tickets. We were going to volunteer at an elementary school, but we had to cancel that in order to close on our house. So our backup plan was to go to the Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary and talk to their birds. I'm not kidding. It was a very easy (albeit cold) way to spend our service time. Despite needing earplugs and being worried about sharp claws and beaks, we spent a lovely 4 hours conversing with parrots, trying to teach them new words, holding baby desert turtles, etc. For not being bird people, we grew pretty attached to these endangered parrots. Especially the one who asked me, "What's the matter?" when I was shivering from cold.

However, if you live locally you will have heard on the news that this lovely sanctuary was hit with a fire and over 200 of the birds and a dog died! Before our service day, I admit, we probably would have been more upset about the one dog (again, we're not bird people). But now that we "know" these birds, we have found ourselves wondering: Was it Max? PJ? Vegas? Reno? Baby? The turtles? The raven?

At some point we are planning to head back and find out what we can do to help. It's true that we only care about this place because we were planning on using them for something free. But now we're not even sure they would have had the time to send in our service hours (or maybe they burned!) so who knows if we'll get our free Disneyland tickets. So the way I see it, the sanctuary gets 4+ hours of our time, and Disneyland gets our money after all. (cause we still have to go this year). So in our particular case the Disney year of service lies:

Disneyland: 1 Us: 0