Friendly Butterflies

With five national parks and the gorgeous Rocky Mountains, Utah has a lot to offer in the way of outdoor appeal.   Hiking, skiing, fishing, rock climbing, and boating are all things that bring people to Utah from all over the world.  Those kinds of activities are great and I do enjoy hiking at least, but I'll be honest I kind of miss all the historical sites and interesting museums of the East Coast. 

Ellie recently had a few days off of school for Fall Break and the weather wasn't great, which meant that the main appeal of Utah wasn't all that appealing.   So I did a little digging, bought season passes to Thanksgiving Point, and we headed to the Butterfly Biosphere for some fun!  

We'd been to the Butterfly Pavilion at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum before, but this was habitat was much larger and it was great way to spend a rainy day.   The workers told us to wear perfume and sweet smelling lotions if we wanted the butterflies to land on us....

but Ellie and I had just had our hair chemically treated the day before, so we were definitely not very sweet smelling and the butterflies mostly kept their distance.  

During our journey around the habitat, Hermana Goold called {on her p-day}, and we had a little chat right there amidst the  butterflies.  

It was a fun way to spend a day off of school and we'll definitely be back again...

Although next time we'll go with freshly washed hair and some sweet smelling lotion to make some more fluttering friends!