Arbor Day in Animalia was also a quiet celebration, but it was still fun. There were quite a few things to do.
A number of woodworker companies in Animalia, not just beavers, had a display on different types of wood, and what those different types of woods were used for. Some of the displays, especially the artistically carved furniture were available for sale.
There was also a beginning of a tradition to plant a different young tree in the Field of Years every year on Arbor Day. The one that started the tradition was an apple tree. There was also a time capsule where information from the beginning of Animalia would be buried in a go-no-further location to be excavated at least three decades into the future and reminisce on past trials and triumphs. Everyone thought it was a good idea, but not everyone could contribute because of the size of the fireproof box used for the time capsule.
Arbor Day was also the debut of a canary Animalian as a music artist. Her real name was Sera, but her stage name was Canary Diamond. The reason she chose that name was because of the sparkly, sequined dress she wore in her first show, after a few months of practice.She was originally a pet of a young girl who enjoyed pop music, but when she was uplifted during the outbreak in Lyre, she also decided to go into the music scene. Her very first song was called, in honor of Arbor Day, "Oh, that's so botanical" after a song that her owner-now-sister liked to listen to on a really old computer game called Explorapedia.
The final thing that was part of the celebration was the tour of the nearly complete Worldwide School of Animalia. The reason it was called worldwide was because many of the uplifted Animalians came from the Lyre Zoo outbreak, and thereby came from many different continents. It was a little unnerving to see the ceiling fifteen feet high and doors wide enough for five football players wearing their full gear to walk through side by side without crowding, but that was deemed necessary, especially by Dean and Nzynga and their tusks. The building was separated by grade years, from preschool, to first through fifth grade, sixth through eight grade, and from freshman to senior year.
The Arbor Day Festivities was a great way to celebrate new beginnings, and was another way to prepare for the IAC. This was important because IAC ticket sales and preorder packages in all three tiers were already reaching past the tens of millions mark.