A trip to the Butterfly House

My sister Ellen always has great ideas for activities to do and yesterday she called us up and invited us to join her and the boys at the Butterfly house in Sioux Falls. You can visit their website and check out their live Web Cam online at www.sertomabutterflyhouse.org It was so much fun! There are great walkways in the Butterfly house and all this lush vegitation, beautiful flowers--it made me homesick for Hawaii. There was a stream running through with a cute little bridge and waterfall (more about this later). And then there were the Butterflies. Everywhere you looked there was a Butterfly flitting around or resting on a leaf or landing on a person for a rest. It's a beautiful place and so peaceful and nice. I just discovered that they offered a Yoga class there for beginners last month, how much fun would that have been?

So, here's a picture of Ava and the boys, Pete and Will, by the stream. Ava was VERY excited and she kept telling us how excited she was, "Water! Oh my gosh, Water! That looks like fun! Doesn't that look fun? Shouldn't I get it? Maybe I'll just touch it, just dip my fingers in for a bit... I'll just lean over real close and get a better look, just get my fingers wet--woah!!!" and splash! I was able to catch the back of her shirt with one of my fingers, barely saving her from a total soaking. And so it was that just the right side of her body got wet, her right piggy tail, her right sleeve, her right leg. She thought it was great and wanted to just climb right back in, she didn't understand why this wasn't a good idea. We wrung her out and she and the boys happily spent another half hour in the tropical park, oblivious to wet clothes. (I did notice a couple of weird looks from two park attendants when they saw her wet clothes but no one asked. :)