Amazing Butterflies!

We went to the museum this afternoon because they're having a special butterfly exhibit, in addition to the outdoor butterfly rainforest, of course. It's really cool, it's a big maze that teaches you all about the life of a caterpillar/butterfly.

You start off as just a little caterpillar, see?

As a baby, you have to learn how to move, inching forward piece by piece. Good thing Lela and I are so good at working together!

Then we learned about leaves, climbing, and eating. (I thought this part helped me resemble a fairy... Fairy, butterfly, same idea!)

But not all leaves are good! There are some plants that try to eat you if you're a caterpillar - they have these creepy leg-like things on them. I did NOT like this part!

Then, once you're all full of leaves, you build yourself a cocoon and hang out there for a while.

Then you're a butterfly! (There were no pictures of that part of the maze, we kind of got lost and confused for a little bit...)

As a butterfly, you have to be very careful of spiders. We climbed up a spider web just to see what it would be like, even though as a butterfly you should never do this.

I got all the way to the top!

And then the spider came home - can you see her face? Eeeek!

Ha ha, Mami's funny...

Apparently butterflies dance to attract their prince charmings. This I can handle!

I don't know what this was all about but it spun around and was fun.

However, the very best part of the exhibit was getting to fly like a butterfly! With the help of a nice butterfly-helper-man, of course.

That was so much fun I did it again:

What a great - and educational - way to spend a VERY hot afternoon, don't you think?