After a lunch break in the plaza, we found our way to the Butterfly Wonderland! We started off our visit there with a 3D movie on the migration of Monarch butterflies. It was informative and beautiful.
After the video room, there was a small room with a glass wall that had many butterflies/moths in the various stages of emerging from their cocoons.
Naturally, our favorite part was the giant room full of so many varieties of butterflies! I tried to get at least one photo of a moment with each kid and a butterfly. Carson's shirt was clearly a hit! It was so bright and perfect and the butterflies loved it!
Lizzie had several butterflies love her pastel bill!
It was fun to see this butterfly right on the bead on top of Carson's hat.
I kind of want to put a butterfly silhouette on Lizzie's hat now that looks just like this!
There were so many butterflies, some even hung out on the concrete walkways!
This butterfly tried not once, but twice to leave an egg on my camera. Neither took.
This is what a butterfly egg looks like. It's no surprise that this egg didn't even make it out of the butterfly room.
Lizzie caught a picture of a butterfly on my head. It's almost invisible with the greenery behind me, though.
Lizzie borrowed my phone for a while here and the next several photos are by her.
Cole, seeing Carson and Lizzie have such luck with their hats, took his hat off to watch for a butterfly to land. He showed such great patience!
After some time, his patience won out! I love his absolutely crazy thrilled expression!
Carson, still sporting his T-Rex face paint, chilled by the stairs and watched for a while.
Waiting patiently.
Even Aaron lured a butterfly close with his Broncos hat.
Evie had just the right shade of shirt to beg butterflies to light on her.
There were only a few of these white butterflies and they were SO elusive! I felt lucky to get even a single shot of one when it was still!
Blue beauties, sunning on the walkway.
This fellow thought he was coming home with me; even wanted to hold my hand! Ha!
We were surprised and giddy when we saw that the butterflies would lay their eggs on us. The employees told us it's very normal and just to brush them off. I had more than one lay an egg on my camera, Evie had an egg on her glasses, I got another on my hand, and Lizzie got one on her shirt. Lizzie made an effort to leave her's alone on the hopes that we could get it home and raise it. That didn't work out, but we did get home and get ourselves an online butterfly habitat. We currently have several plump caterpillars and a couple that have moved to cocoon stage.
Near the butterfly room was a hive and garden set aside for honeybees. Evie spent some time studying them.
My kids, reimagined as grasshoppers!
There was a reptile, amphibian and aquatic section
We all definitely loved the Butterfly Wonderland!
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