Today was Colton and my second Tuesday Date Day. Last Tuesday he spent the day with his cousin, so today we had to make up for lost date time. I decided to take him today to a Nature Conservatory about 20 minutes away from our house, which I had never been to before. There was also a dinosaur show at 1:00 which I bought us both tickets to, so I decided to get there early and explore the grounds.
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| balancing on the logs... I think we were supposed to be learning how old the tree was ;) |
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| close to the entrance |
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| part of the Gardens with a mini waterfall |
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| high-five! |
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| Colton taking my pic and having me make a 'silly' face |
I have to say, I was blown away. It was so beautiful (and a perfect 80 degrees today!) inside and outside. We were the first people there, only joined by a nature camp on the property. We started off inside the conservatory to learn about some animals.
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| Colton LOVES terrapins since he's been to 2 U of MD football games |
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| One of the employees had the patience of a saint. Colton must've asked her over 50 questions in about 5 minutes. And... all starting with "Why" of course! |
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| snakeskins next to the snake tank. Eric would've been grossed out! |
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He loved looking through a microscope to see rocks and shells.
Next was a walk outside onto the property. We decided to check out the Butterfly Garden. It should've also been called a Bee Garden if you ask us, but the flowers were beautiful!
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11:30. Time for a picnic lunch. PB&J of course...
Next onto the gardens and to find the animals...
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| The billygoat in front of Colton kept trying to headbutt him. The white goat on the top was chillin' in the sun and not too interested in our company |
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Chicks
Now was time for the dinosaur show. I ended up running into and sitting with a friend from my Basic Training days at the gym, her wonderful mom, and three adorable kiddos! *Warning- if you see me this summer, you will most likely end up on my blog ;)
The dinosaur show was really cute. It was a sort of puppet/muppet event, run by a company from Australia. The host was very entertaining for the kids, and I have to say that I learned a lot as well that I never knew about these historic creatures.
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Hope you had a DINO-mite day as well!
So fun running into you (and not running WITH you, ha!). This was a cool place too, neat discovery!
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