The highlight of our explorations was a butterfly exhibit at the Natural History museum. Once we convinced her, Julia was excited to see it and turned out to love it! We went through the butterfly habitat - a huge rainforest enclosure - twice and spent a long time looking at cocoons, butterflies in various stages of hatching, and hundreds of different butterfly specimens.
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An amusing story about this - Julia insists on calling it the "butterfly conservatory." We have no idea where she came up with that word - we didn't use it and that's not what the exhibit was called but for whatever reason she associated it and now she corrects us every time we talk about it! It's pretty funny to hear her say "butterfly conservatory."She has such a great vocabulary!
Also at the top of the kids' list was getting to go swimming. Even though the water was pretty chilly they were both enthusiastic swimmers and had to be practically dragged out both times even though they were shivering and had lips the color of smurfs.
Over the few days we also had time to visit with Grandma and Grandpa, Julia got her first manicure (and visited with a certain special Christmas VIP at the mall - details later!), avoided the alligator trail at a local nature preserve, found a great playground, and just enjoyed spending time together.
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