The Butterfly Attack!

Thursday, 3-26-09

Darin took the day off and we took the kids to the Seattle Children's Museum (awesome!) and the Pacific Science Center to see the butterfly house. This the first time that we had been to either of these places. The kids absolutely loved the children's museum, so we bought a yearly pass. We will definitely be going back and hopefully with the cousins.

After lunch we went over to the science center to go through the butterfly house that we were VERY excited to see after seeing Lisa's blog of their trip. We walked in and you were immediately struck by the warmth and the tropical smells. It took me back to Hawaii and I longed to be lounging on the beach....wishful thinking! The kids loved seeing all of the butterflies flying all around them. Half way through our journey we ran into a rogue butterfly that would not leave use alone. The kids were petrified of it, which was so funny.

Here is our first encounter with the butterfly. It was flying all around us and the kids were interested, but getting a little scared because it was getting too close.

Then it lands on Darin. You are not suppose to touch them, so he just let it climb all over him. The kids were very afraid that it was going to bite him. Even though we told them that butterflies are nice and don't bite, it did not stop them from being upset and scared.

Eeeek, it's climbing higher.....

and higher......

Now it stops and puts it's "straw" into Darin's mouth and then moves a little up and put it in his nose. The kids are freaking out about this. Darin blew air at it to get it to fly off.

It wouldn't actually leave us. You can see the scared face on Zach.

And here it followed us around the corner and landed next to Darin and Elissa. Elissa is actually crying in Darin's arms telling him that she wants to leave now.

I never would have thought that the butterfly house was going to be a traumatic experience. I think we will wait quite a while before we go there again. :0)