This morning, William and I made a trip out to Brookside Gardens to check out their Wings of Fancy butterfly exhibit. I had been wanting to take William for a while since reading about it on a friend's blog, but it was always too hot and humid, especially since the exhibit is in a greenhouse. But when I found out that today would be in the low 80's with low humidity, I decided to just go for it, since these nice cooler days are few and far between during the hot summer ones.
William was a little scared at first, but quickly acclimated to the greenhouse. Since we left first-thing in the morning, the greenhouse was still relatively cool. Seeing all the butterflies flying around caught his attention for the first 5 minutes, but then he was pretty much done. =P Honestly, he wasn't very interested and didn't really want to walk around (I had to carry him everywhere), but it was a great opportunity to expose him to more of the winged creatures that we sometimes see on our walks near our house. I managed to get a few good pics (with William actually smiling!) and stretch out our time in the small greenhouse to about a half hour, but after that, William was ready to go. And that was fine since there wasn't much else to see but the butterflies. So we (or I) walked around the gardens for a bit before we had to leave. It was a perfect little trip to squeeze into the morning before the day got warmed up. I'm glad we got a chance to go and enjoyed my time of opening the world up a little more for my monkey.
William is looking at a small butterfly to the far right.
Out in the gardens...
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