Butterfly Pavilion

Maddox and I get to have a special day together on Thursdays because Mason and Morgan are at their homeschool enrichment classes. This past week, I took Maddox to the Butterfly Pavilion and we had a wonderful time! We saw all sorts of gorgeous butterflies from all over the world! We weren't supposed to hold them, but I snuck a shot of us admiring this one up close...

Here's another one that we especially liked - it looks like an owl with those beautiful "eye spots" on his wings.


In addition to all the butterflies, they also had many other creatures including a hairy tarantula named Rosie. Kids can "hold" Rosie, but Maddox wasn't too crazy about that idea, so Momma had to hold her instead... and I can't say that I was any more thrilled about the idea than he was! We saw scorpions - including one that glows in the dark - stick bugs, millipedes, starfish, crabs, poisonous spiders... and I could handle all of these just fine. It wasn't until we happened upon a cage full of COCKROACHES that Momma got severe eebie-jeebies. I have a cockroach phobia... never heard of that? It has a name. I looked it up: Blattodephobia. Yes, that's me. Completely blattodephobic. And I CERTAINLY didn't enjoy looking at a cage with hundreds of them crawling around... {shiver}. I mean, how can that POSSIBLY be educational?!

...but those butterflies sure were pretty! :)
Michele