On Wednesday, we walked a block over to Fort Wayne's Botanical Conservatory. We had been hearing a lot about the special butterfly exhibit from people at the firm, the visit Fort Wayne Center, and people at church, so we thought that we would give it a try. We were told that there were hundreds and hundreds of butterflies that would come and land on you...
I thought that Jack would love it. When we got there, there weren't as many butterflies as I was expecting ( I think we came towards the end of the exhibit, so a lot of the butterflies had already kicked the bucket).
But anyway, when we got there, Jack was sort of terrified of the butterflies. He kept calling them "scary birdies". Which was pretty entertaining to me,but not so much to him...
It took some time for me to convince him that the butterflies were actually nice, but it was still really difficult to snap a picture of Jack's face because he spent the entire time anxiously looking over his shoulder to make sure a butterfly didn't get too close to him. It also didn't help that we arrived at the same time as a 3rd grade field trip, so there were tons of bigger kids running around everywhere...
Luckily there was an old lady Jack wanted to flirt with, so he was distracted with her long enough for me to actually get a picture of him smiling.
Overall, the conservatory was pretty cool though. There was a rain forest room with all kinds of exotic plants and a giantic waterfall and a desert room with a 300 year old blooming cactus! The set up really made you feel like you were in a rain forest or desert. It was pretty awesome. It was neat that you can sort of enter a new environment right in the heart of down town.
Of course, Jack was on his phone the entire time..
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