The Butterfly Pavilion - Broomfield, CO

I started this blog a while after we'd gone on a fantastic and fun week-long vacation to Colorado. Ryan and I reveled in all thing Colorado! We wanted to share so much with the boys. After Daniel being at the hospital here when Logan was born, it was fun to show him the hospital where HE was born. We drove through our old neighborhood (tears were shed) and ate at Chili's. Yep, Chili's. Why, oh why, isn't there a Chili's here? You need a little bottomless chips and salsa every now and then - it's good for you!

Anyway, I thought I would do a few posts about all of the fun things we did while we were there. This first one is a Denver-area staple. If you visit the area, you HAVE to go to the Butterfly Pavilion. (It's almost like going to Casa Bonita. You might not like it, it costs more than you think it should, but you have to go anyway. . . . which we didn't do (Casa Bonita) . . . thank heavens! Who needs a bad mexican food TV dinner, just to see cliff divers and crawl around in the cave. The sopapillas, well that's the best part. But, I digress!)

Back to the Butterfly Pavilion!! http://www.butterflies.org/ After a long morning in the sun and fun of Boondocks, half the family opted out of the Butterflies . . . but never fear . . . Chris and Alli were willing to go! We wandered through all of the 'bug and spider' exhibits - without so much as a single touch of Rosie, the tarantula. We watched the bees - very interesting - and tried to find all of the 'camouflage' bugs.

Finally - into the butterfly conservatory! There were THOUSANDS of them!! Everywhere you look - butterflies of every imaginable color and size combination. They're perched on every leaf, feeding on fruit, fluttering past you, and once in a while landing on your shirt. Daniel took several turns with the camera - for a little dude, his pics are not too shabby.I love this next picture - if you look at the plant in front of Ryan and Daniel - there are 3 butterflies just in that one little plant.

Inside the conservatory is very, very warm and very, very humid! Made for perfect 'matching hairdo' pics!A couple of crazy cousins having a great time!The biggest kid around!A few more butterfly pics . . . .