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# Anika's Traveling Turtle

Confession time.

## Background

Cameron has a good friend named Anika Willis. They first met as
toddlers when we lived in student housing at BYU. Matt and Andra moved
in shortly after we did, to an apartment with doors that opened just
across from ours onto the same porch. More often than not, in the
summertime, both doors were open and Cameron and Anika would move back
and forth quite freely. We all got to be very close friends.

Since then, we've stayed in good touch with the Willis family. While
we were in Virginia, they were in New Jersey which was just close
enough that we were able to spend some great Thanksgiving holidays
together. Now, we all miss each other terribly since we're in Oregon
while they're in north Carolina.

## The problem
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A couple of months ago, we received Anika's Traveling Turtle in the
mail, (look at the adorable message she wrote to introduce it). The
plan was that we would write an entry about an animal and mail it on
to someone else to do the same. We even took it with us on our Spring
Break trip to the coast with full intentions to add an entry right
away. But "the best-laid plans" and all that. Cameron has now made a
nice entry on the life cycle of a frog, and Hyrum did the same for
salmon. But we don't have time to let the turtle do any more
traveling, (at least not through snail mail).

## A plea for help

This web page is our last chance to help out Anika by letting her
turtle do a little bit of virtual traveling. It is a bit embarrassing
to be asking people to help on a tight deadline, when the only reason
for expediency was our own failure to act quickly. So, please, nobody
should feel any obligation to do anything.

But if anybody would be interested and willing to help, we would
really appreciate it. Here are Anika's original instructions:

> Please write (type) about an animal in your area or one that you are
> intrigued about. It doesn't have to be a lengthy report, just some
> specifics that will help me learn more about some animal life cycles
> (birth to adult). Please be sure that your paper is signed with your
> name, city, and state.

If anyone would be willing to do that, please just type a quick email
to stacy@theworths.org and Stacy will print them out, paste them
into Anika's book, and then send the results back to Anika.

Thanks so much!