Butterflies.....

The butterflies were awesome, the kids has so much fun exploring the paths and bridges to see all the butterflies feeding and flying around. There was also turtles and birds and fish to see and a waterfall. It was very hot and humid in the butterfly room.

This butterfly must have found some residue raspberry jam from Sams lunch on his sleeve and took quite a liking to him. Sam was most intrigued with it.

Jessa holding a huge butterfly, this one was dead and dried (or whatever it is they do to them) but they had these ones flying about too. Apparently they dont have feeding tubes. They come out of the chrysalis with fat bodies and live off their body for four days before dieing. Not a very interesting life! The lady in the butterfly house spent quite some time with Laura and Daniel telling them about the butterflies and birds that were in the exhibition.
The museum also had heaps of interactive science type activities for the kids to play with and tropical fish. We will definately return again as we didnt have much time due to parking in a meter and needing to get back on the road.

We finally made it home on Friday night about 7pm.

Saturday was spent at Splash Palace. We had promised Jessa we would go swimming in the pool at Christchurch but ran out of time so a special trip was in order to fulfill our promise. Coupled with lunch out at the Copper Kettle and the kids were happy!