off on a butterfly adventure

zoe was dying to to go to the butterfly park, but we never found the time while brita and cege were there, but finally she got her day of wings. hired to tuk tuk and headed out. they even provided us with a guide who explained the life cycle of a buttfly. (you can imagine how many questions zoe had!). we started off at the pupa cage. where they keep all the chrysalis until the hatch, and the butterflies wings are dry enough so they can fly. we even saw a few emerge from their cocoons, it was pretty cool.
then we headed off to the where they keep all the caterpillars safe from birds and other animals so that they can turn into butterflies. they have a deal that they pay farmers to bring in the caterpillars instead of kill them. pretty cool system and it seems to work.
there were a lot of gorgeous butterflies that we had a great time observing, but very few who held still long enough for me to get a good shot of them.
here our guide and zoe are trying to show eijla a butterfly, and explain to her why she should not to touch the wings.
seemed like eijla was a having a great time.
zoe was pretty excited with getting to "hold" so many butterflies. she really did not want to leave when it was time.
our tuktuk driver took a shining to eijla and the snuggled and played while thomas tried to convince zoe and i that it was time to go...
was a beautiful time in a beautiful place filled with beautiful butterflies...
on the way home, we had to take a shot of this. yes, they are filling the gas tank, and what is that? yes that is a johnnie walker bottle. funny.
and thomas snapped this shot of me and zoe bonding over our new toy. an ipod touch. i do not know who plays with it more, zoe, eijla or me! :)!