blooms and butterflies...

last week we headed over to the Columbus Franklin Park and Conservatory for the 'blooms and butterflies' exhibit, in the month of march in one of there indoor botanical garden areas they release butterfiles all over and it's really cool. it was our very first time going and we were very happy we went and checked it out.

we went on one of the days where they were actually releasing more butterflies which we thought was going to be really fun to see, but it was actually kinda lame, well to us it was. a lady came in with two big clear bins that had lots of butterflies inside, but instead of just opening up the bins and letting them go, she took each butterfly out one by one and explained a little something about each butterfly. the first like 25 were cool, but then it was dragging on, so we walked around some more and then bounced on out. it was still totally worth seeing all the beautiful plants, flowers and hundreds of butterflies.

and of course without fail i have a palethora of pictures.

here's a taste of what we enjoyed...

brody loved this bird. as you can tell brody's like, 'hi bird, here eat my finger'. awe-some!

one of our favorite gardens was the 'palms'. so so pretty. made us wish we were somewhere WARM and tropical!

some of the palm trees were huge - this one in particular was giant, the picture doesnt do it justice.

however...

you can tell how big this palm was.

LOVED the orange trees! they reminded me of when tyson and i lived in California and how they were in everyone's back yards. i want an orange tree!

also loved the little pinapple plants!

there was also lots of different pieces of blown glass in a bunch of the differentgardens. it was beautiful!

and then there were the butterflies...

see the butterfly in this one...oh, poor poor butterfly. just as we were putting the butterfly on brody's finger. brody decided it was just easier to snatch it in his hand and proceed to smash the crap out of it. Opps! we were able to get him to let go and release it, poor little fella fluttered to the ground. not gonna lie, it was sad, but we were totally laughing. but with the next one he did much better! :)

and that's the end of our time at the 'blooms and butterflies'. i'd defintely go back next year, but won't worry about going on a day when they "relase" the butterflies. it really is nice though to live pretty much down the street from the city and be surrounded by such awesome parks and gardens.

the end.