Botanical Garden

All three big kids are spending the week at Lupi and Boompa's house. Things are much quieter at home, that's for sure. Today we took Clara and Tyler, a little boy I watch during the week, and went to the Tucson Botanical Garden to see the Butterfly Exhibit.

Yay! Here we are getting ready to go in!

All the butterflies were in a special green house. It was super hot and humid inside, but there were butterflies everywhere. Tons of them on the plants and fluttering around in the air.

 

 

Jared really liked all the flowers in the greenhouse. Especially this purple orchid.

 

 

Clara kept trying to grab the butterflies.

 

 

This was one of my favorites. It was huge! And as you can see so gorgeous. My very favorite were these beautiful blue Amazonian's, but none of them would land and I couldn't get a picture.

 

 

Here are the kids checking out the big white butterfly getting a drink from the creek.

 

After seeing the butterflies we walked around to see the rest of the gardens.

Here's Daddy taking a rest.

 

They had a miniature train set running through a part of the gardens. Tyler really got a kick out of that.

 

 

Tyler Butterfly

 

This was a carnivorous plant terrarium. Inside it was full of pitcher plants.

 

This is an Indian Grinding Stone. They had corn out and the kids got to try grinding it up with the stones.

 

You can't tell from the picture that this was a little waterfall.

 

Clara cutie

 

As you can tell, she likes to climb up and sit on benches.

 

Grrrr! A big lizard! Clara was so excited by this guy, maybe she thought it was real.

 

 

 

 

Side note... We got a hot tub! We've all been having a blast playing in the water. Here's Hannah taking a dip.

 

Bye for now!