Skinnybuns and the Trekking Ligers

Oh my goodness, I think I could write a children's book. The adventures of a girl with very skinny buns, and her sidekicks. They head out to walk a zillion (100- but still, that feels like a zillion) miles to raise funds for Oxfam.

Oxen mom and calf- a tiny oxen family.
Cute, but not doing a whole lot of charity work..

Oxfam is not a family of oxen, though that would be adorable.

Oxfam's name comes from its origins- the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Oxford as in the place in the UK. Not as furry but still very important.

Their mission:

"Working with thousands of local partner organizations, we work with people living in poverty striving to exercise their human rights, assert their dignity as full citizens and take control of their lives."

Take control of their lives? YES! I love it! Human rights, a hand-up in getting out of poverty, all these things are important but taking control of their own lives- most important. That is the key to breaking the poverty cycle.

Anyhow, SkinnyBuns and Eagle Guru are joining a couple friends and they are going to walk 100 miles and they've been given 30 hours to do it. But that is not good enough for them because they're going to do it in 24 hours. (How do I know the Eagle Guru is somehow behind the reduction in time?). This hardly allows for stops to pet animals along the way or nap breaks, or anything of that sort. They shall have to entertain themselves with music and such. I shall provide them with a few of our favorite time killing family games from when we go walking. We trade off questions, among them are:

• if you could be a what would you be?
• what is your favorite
• if you could eat anything right now what would it be?
• if you could have anything right now what would it be?
• if you could get a new car, what would you choose?
• if you had one wish (or 3, depends on how much time... and no you cannot wish for more wishes) what would you wish for
• if you could give one person something, what would it be
• if you could solve one world problem what would you fix?
• how do you think could be fixed?

and the list goes on. it sounds simple but it really makes a long walk or car ride or whatever fun.

Anyhow, Skinnybuns is blogging here: http://trekkingligers.wordpress.com/ so you can read her goals and progress...

and their fundraiser page is here http://www.justgiving.com/TTL2013 (you will notice it's under her teammates name, Julie) if you are so inclined to support their effort. Remember, the funds go to the Oxfam's amazing work, not to the Trekking Ligers team shirts or after-race festivities. And Oxfam deserves the support.

Go Ligers!