Saturday, July 10, 2010

Butterfly House

I never got around to blogging about this, but a few weeks back we needed to see the orthopedic doc. I set it up so we could go to Dallas for the appointment because I wanted to take Dakin to the Butterfly House at Discovery Gardens.

It was amazing, but incredibly hot and humid--even more humid than outside, but that's because they're tropical butterflies. It's a beautiful setup--you start one story up and walk down along a long ramp to a picturesque garden-type setting. We got there just in time to watch them releasing the new butteflies. These ones here are blue morphos--they're HUGE and their wings are this entrancing blue. I wish they would have opened their wings for the picture... Dakin enjoyed seeing the butterflies flit around for a little while, but he started sweating pretty quickly. It was just too much in there. We're going to try to go back in October.

4 comments:

Colleen said...

How fun! Dakin probably really enjoyed it even though it was hot & humid=)

Darren and Jody said...

Hi Devon,

Dakin is such a cute little boy!!!!

Kristen said...

We took the girls two summers ago to a butterfly house in Niagara Falls. It was awesome! I bet that Dakin loved watching them!

Sara said...

You guys should come to Houston. We could meet (YAY!) and go to the Museum of Natural Science. They have a whole big butterfly center, it is AWESOME!! Here is a link: http://www.hmns.org/see_do/butterfly_center.asp
It is only $8 per adult and $7 per child over 3 yrs old. Plus, you can see parts of of the museum for free while you are there. You know...IF you're ever in Houston :)
xoxox~