Flowers and Butterflies

Last week, I was lucky to get a pass to the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden. I decided to take the girls and little Mister on Monday. The 4 of us got there pretty much at opening and checked out the desert trail.

At 9:30, the butterfly exhibit opened. We couldn't resist checking it out. It was really neat and I'm glad that we did.

We learned some neat things about butterflies. For example, they use their feet to taste their food. Interesting, isn't it? Melanie decided there were 106 butterflies in the exhibit, but the lady that helped us leave the exhibit informed us that there were over 1000. wow!

Then my girls decided to *become* caterpillars and butterflies.

After the exhibit, we walked the rest of the desert trail (there were some beautiful flowers blooming on the cacti) and then we headed home. It was already really hot.

It was definitely a fun, beautiful experience.