Live it up...

We participated. We showed that we care about energy conservation. We simply switched off our lights between 8:30pm to 9:30pm awhile ago this day of March 28.

Earth Hour is both a symbolic act and the start of a practical habit. Millions of homes and businesses and hundreds of major landmarks will go dark for one hour to show that energy conservation is important and to send this message to political leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009.

At the same time, Earth Hour reminds each of us how easy it is to conserve -- just turn off non-essential lights and electronics to reduce our own power consumption.

Since we are a day advanced on some countries and places in the world, I've read and seen in the news that some famous buildings will be going dark on Saturday including: The Empire State Building in New York City, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the Sydney Opera House, the Sears Tower in Chicago, Seattle's Space Needle, the Great Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Broadway theater marquees in New York City.

To top it off, even the flashy Las Vegas Strip will turn dark for an hour. Imagine that!

I wonder how it's like, for the very first time, the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign will go off. LoL.

Time for me to look for some table linens now that my mom's asking me to do.