For her 5th butterfly birthday, Brooke received some live caterpillars and a terrarium to watch their metamorphosis into butterflies.  We’ve been enjoying their growth and today released them into our backyard.

We decided to head to Busch Gardens on a Sunday.  That was a terrible idea.  We waited 45 minutes from the off ramp to move 0.2 mi to the parking ticket gate and it took another 15 minutes to get to the park.  The kids were awesome and took this in stride when our 1 hour car ride turned into a 2 hour one.  Even though the park was packed the kids got to ride the roller coasted they asked for, Grover’s, three times.  One time they both rode together which was so much fun to watch!  We waited another 30 minutes to take the sky lift because Brooke really wanted to ride it and cleverly used that time in line to feed the kids the lunch we packed.  We rode to the top of the park when it unfortunately started raining much earlier than predicted. We tried to wait it out, but eventually decided to leave and ran from the back of the park to the front and got soaking wet in the process.  Lesson learned: Never go to Busch Gardens on a weekend or if there is even a slight chance of rain later in the day.  We laughed it off and will just have to try it again some other time.