The Butterfly House

Grandma and Grandpa Wheeler came to visit us this week from Utah. We have been enjoying the time with them and it is so much fun to watch the girls interact with them. One of our outings was to a place called the Butterfly House. It is hard to describe, so I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

If you can't tell from our facial expressions, Alyssa is terrified and I am disgusted in the picture below.

Ashley is in front of a butterfly display here. Those are all real, dead butterflies behind her.
Let me take a minute to describe our experience of going through the butterfly house. When you walked into the house, there were a bunch of bug displays. Things like beetles, cockroaches, spiders, etc. They were all abnormally large and deadly too. After looking at the bugs, we watched a 17 minute movie about butterflies and where they come from. After the movie, we went into the large greenhouse-like room where the live butterflies were flying all around us. It was extremely hot and humid in there, but amazing to see all of those beautiful, big butterflies so close. You had to be careful not to step on them because some were on the ground too. Here are Danny and the girls inside the butterfly room.

Here is the whole group minus myself. If you look just to the right of Alyssa's arm, you can see a butterfly that snuck into the picture.

Here is another picture that caught a butterfly. I don't know how we managed to miss more of them because they were everywhere.

Here is one more with a butterfly in it.

And here is Grandma posing with the butterflies.

Here is a picture of the kind of butterfly I saw the most in there. There were other ones too, but mostly this kind. It was this pretty blue on the top of the wings and brown and speckaled on the bottom.

We all had to laugh that Alyssa insisted on taking her "Spying Scope" with her to look at the butterflies. The funny part about it being that you can't even see through the cheap Kid's Meal toy. But she carried it around with her anyways.

The pictures don't even do justice to describe the beauty in that room. I think Ashley was even entertained by them. The only downside was that it wasn't as big as we had expected and we were really glad we had "buy one get one free" coupons because admission was more money then we would have liked paying. We will post more pictures from their visit later on this week.