Sunday, March 13, 2011

Night with the Butterflies

Since we've been members at Frederik Meijer Gardens, one of our favorite times of year is butterfly season. For whatever reason, though, we've never been able to make it to their night time event, until this year.
Hannah came ready to find butterflies with her flashlight. It was really dark in the atrium, so finding the butterflies was actually pretty tricky.

We learned that butterflies sleep in the trees at night. Taking pictures was quite a challenge, since I was literally shooting in the dark.
It was amazing that you could reach right out and touch them, if that weren't prohibited of course!

In addition to the butterflies themselves, there were a number of other special activities taking place. Hannah got her first ink - a caterpillar tattoo.


Jason and Hannah had fun making butterflies (not sure who's working harder.)


Adding the bling.


For the record, Jack also came along. However, since I was wearing Jack in my new Boba carrier (L.O.V.E it!!), and I was the photographer of the night, he didn't get in any of the other pictures.


The prettiest butterfly of the night.

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