butterfly pavillion

today we went on a family date to the butterfly pavillion in westminster.  it was a hit.  kinda.

my least favorite part was at the very beginning.  the "crawl-a-see-em" made me uncomfortable on every level.  i don't even want to look over or narrate the pictures.  i'll just say i left chris in charge of showing baby girl around and getting her pumped about all the bugs and such while i walked around while attempting not to look at anything behind glass.  i needed to put on a brave face for my baby while my christopher taught her that bugs are cool.  i need to raise her right if i expect her to be able to kill spiders for me next summer.

then we went to the little marine section that didn't really make me uncomfortable although i can't really say it was enjoyable either.  this enormous starfish was pretty cool though.  the coral was my favorite.  go figure.

definitely the best part was the butterfly room although i'm not really sure what it was called.  anyways, it was gorgeous and awesome and i told my honey that when we become millionaires, we should definitely consider a butterfly/gardens room in our future mansion.  i've wanted one since i was little when i wished i could grow up and own the biltmore estate.  

this butterfly landed on my purse!

they had an awesome butterfly lesson show something or other.

and during that, another butterfly landed on my hand!

sorry... it just doesn't get old.

and then we went around and kid all of the kid stuff.  and it occupied us a long time!

eating pictures are never flattering.  sorry baby girl.

this tube had a fan at the bottom so you could slide "butterflies" in there and watch them fly up and out.  it was by far baby's favorite.  second favorite was that bridge you see in the background.

have i mentioned before how much i love that she runs full speed with her arms straight out?  it's very endearing.

gift shop

and then because we couldn't help ourselves, we went back to the butterfly room.

check out all these different kinds!

the one on the top right is the tailed mormon and the bottom two are great mormons.

also notice the scarlet mormon, low's mormon, and common mormon.  we got a kick out of the mormons.

ps- i want to punch blogger in the face.