Monday, September 23, 2013

I may not have a Texas Drivers' License yet...

...but I do have a local Texas library card.

And now, I have a membership card to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, too.

You see, when we went to visit last week, after we had added up the admission prices for myself and the boys, I was only $1 less than buying a family membership for a year.  So I went ahead and splurged that extra bit.

And I think it was worth it.  We didn't make it through the whole museum that day, and there are several areas that I know the kids are going to want to visit again and again.

Like the dinosaur hall.

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There are so many different T-Rex skeletons on display!  Which makes the kids happy, because that's one of their favorites.

Another favorite?

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Quetzalcoatlus.  For real, that thing was H.U.G.E.  And it could fly.

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We also visited the Butterfly Center, and it was A-MAH-ZING.  You all know that I loved the annual Blooms & Butterflies exhibit at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, and this was so much bigger, butterfly-wise.  Everything really is bigger in Texas, is what Connor always says. 

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There were hundreds of butterflies everywhere.  Maybe even thousands in the room.

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You almost couldn't walk through the exhibit without having them flutter around your head.

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It was enough to make some certain people nervous.  But not scared, because who is afraid of butterflies? 

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This guy.  He likes to be picked up.

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Our friends.  So glad you could join us.

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Then randomly, we came across a male green iguana named Charro.  He's orange because he is 13 years old.

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Lex calls these ones zebra butterflies.  He wasn't interested in looking at the guide to find out what they are really called.

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So there are probably already enough photos of butterflies for one post, but here is another one anyway.

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Because, why not?

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