we missed it!

while everyone was off having a long weekend in celebration of beer victoria day, we should have been off having a long weekend in celebration of World Turtle Day instead!

The purpose of World Turtle Day, May 23, sponsered yearly since 2000 by [the] American Tortoise Rescue, is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive.
Turtle Day is celebrated worldwide in a variety of ways, from dressing up as turtles to saving turtles caught on highways, to research activities.