Photo Dump: Flowers & Chocolates

Valentine's Day means flowers and chocolates, right? So, I took the kids on two little field trips earlier this week to celebrate.

First, on Valentine's Eve, we went to the Franklin Park Conservatory to check out their orchids exhibit. I would highly suggest that you go, too, and check out the glass orchids art exhibit. It's fantastic how beautiful the glass sculpture orchids are.


I didn't take any really great photos of the glass orchids, what as I was wrangling Lex at the time to make sure that he didn't break any of them. He kept negotiating with me to touch the glass art. "Just one finger, Mommy? Please?" So the security docent was right on our tail. I had to make sure we behaved. It put a small damper on my photography of the art. So, you'll just have to go see it for yourself.

Speaking of photography, Lex brought his camera along and took a ton of photos. Stay tuned for another post where we highlight some of his best work.

More glass art work. This one is a Chihuly sculpture. We watched a movie about his glass blowing techniques while we ate lunch.

Connor picked out his own outfit. All red for Valentine's Day.

On Valentine's Day, I took the boys to the Anthony Thomas Chocolate Factory. It was a surprise, and they didn't know where we were going until we got there. Afterwards, Connor said that going to the chocolate factory was the "best Valentine's surprise ever."


On Valentine's Day, the chocolate factory basically stopped its normal production of chocolate candy, and all their efforts were concentrated on making their Valentine's chocolate-covered strawberries. Which was perfect, because we had just gotten chocolate-covered strawberries to celebrate Valentine's day while we were at the Ohio Union a few days prior, and discovered that they are Lex's favorite dessert. So getting to watch them being made was a real treat.

(As was buying and eating candy in the factory gift shop. The photo above is a little bit blurry, but if you look closely you can see that Lex is smeared in both chocolate and lemon lollipop.)