Magic Wings and More

Mondays have become our family day which has been really nice. I love it because we've set aside a whole day to be together. To actually play and go do things together. The girls really seem to enjoy it too. I'm looking forward to the summer time hopefully there will be a beach trip. anyway. This past Mon. we went to a place called Magic wings. All we really knew was that it was a butterfly museum, where butterflies fly all around and sometimes land on you. We thought Alexa would really enjoy this. When we got there, there was a gift shop, food, and in the museum there were other little animals. When you first walk in there's a room w/ frogs and bugs in glass cages. I didn't put the insect pictures up because they were really ugly and gross. When we went into the butterfly area, they were flying all around. It was hard to show how many there really were because they didn't really stop for a picture. To our surprise Alexa freaked out half the time we were in the butterfly area. Every time one would even come near her she would screech and fling her arms all around. Anthony and I both thought she would warm up eventually but she didn't. Oh well at least we went and tried. Charlie didn't really seem to care about the butterflies, but she liked looking at all the other animals. Mostly she just liked growling at the little baby quails walking around. Every time she saw one she would growl. So between Alexa freaking out and Charlies growling, I think we were the loudest people there.


Here's one of the frogs. Every time they would jump Alexa would jump to in fright thinking they were going to jump on her.







Baby quails that were in a case inside.


Alexa's favorite thing was these huge turtles every time she would freak out about the butterflies she would ask to go back and look at the turtles.

Bearded Lizard

I don't get it, Alexa wouldn't freak out about this ugly thing or when Anthony touched it but she did w/ the butterflies. The lady holding him kept giving him kisses on his lips....GROSS.

All the butterflies flying around, but you kinda have to look, all the spots are butterflies.

The whole time Anthony and I wanted a butterfly to land us or Charlie so we could take a picture. But there were these butterflies w/ really long legs, like a daddy long leg spider. Every time they came near us or Anthony looked at them he would get creeped out.

Alexa after freaking out, telling Charlie that they needed to get out of there.

One butterfly finally landed on Anthony so we stopped to take a picture, then 2 more came. I guess the the blue ones are the ones that usually land on people. I don't know why I just heard someone say that.

Little quails that Charlie had to stop and growl at.

The other thing Charlie loved was the fish. She pressed her face against the fence and wouldn't walk away. We had to pick her up and move her to get her to leave.

Oh yeah, when we first walked in the butterfly room there was on on the floor w/ a hurt wing. Anthony told someone and they picked up. When while we were walking around the guy that picked up the hurt butterfly stopped Anthony and showed him the same butterfly, he had fixed the wing by gluing on another wing and then it flew away.



Fun in the gift store

When we were walking out Alexa wanted ice cream, so we got some. I think that was probably her favorite part.

German Chocolate ice cream....YUMMY.

Alexa done w/ her ice cream, and wanting more.

Me pretending to share, I don't share ice cream.

This is how we do it. We give them ice cream then let them run around before getting back in the car and they take a nap.

After we left Magic Wings we heard there was the biggest tree in Ma. down the street and some really old buildings so we took a drive to go see.

This tree didn't seem any bigger than a normal tree, but they even had a plaque on a rock in front of it.

and some old buildings

A house

A church

Towns hall or something.

At one time, this was a restaruant