Colorado: Day 3

What a great day! We started this day off by going for a 45 minute walk on a paved trail throughout Diana's neighborhood and park. Because it was cold the day before, there was still a cool crispness in the air which made it perfect for our morning stroll. Here are the girls all bundled up so they could enjoy the walk with us.

After we returned from our walk, we got ready to go to the Butterfly Pavilion. It is a small local museum of insects, spiders and some marine life. We all had a great time! Although Natalie was a little young to really appreciate what she was seeing, you could tell that she still enjoyed herself.

We started off in a room that housed all sorts of creepy crawly critters. We saw HUGE scorpions, tarantulas, cockroaches, grasshoppers, and millipedes and various other scary looking critters.

There is a HUGE black tarantula to the left of the green plant in the back of the aquarium. Can you see it? Natalie was pretty interested in looking at it.

Eeek! I'm holding a tarantula! Her name is Rosie. She was very sweet, tame and VERY lightweight. Surprisingly enough, this experience wasn't as scary as I thought it would be.

This is a HUGE starfish. Natalie couldn't really see it, or was uninterested in it, but I thought it was cool...so I forced her to "pose" for the photo. :o)

And now for the best part of the museum, here is the butterfly pavilion!

Here's a little video I took in an attempt to show you all the butterflies flying around us. It was amazing!

While Diana and I were in awe with all the beautiful butterflies the girls thought this puddle of water around a drain was more interesting. (Don't worry, I used a LOT of "wet ones" to disinfect hands throughout the afternoon.)

Just around the corner from the puddle sat the cutest turtle! The girls were very interested in checking out this strange looking animal.

As we left the butterfly sanctuary there were several display cases of various kinds of butterflies. I thought it was so awesome that Natalie and Maggie were so interested in looking at them.

At the end of all the exhibits, there is a fun room with gigantic moving bugs and play area for the kids to run around. I think this was Natalie's favorite part. She ran wild from one thing to another. I took a billion pictures here, but will only force you to view a few. :o)

Diana also took a bunch of photos with her camera. Click HERE to view her post of the field trip.