Wildflower celebration

On Sunday we went to Mt. Cuba, a mansion and gardens (like so many others, and also belonging to a former duPont). I had never been before, since the owner of the house was still alive when I lived here, apparently. It was neat though, the had a one-way walking tour set up with a lot of kids' activities along the way.



Calvin, you would have loved it, it was all about caterpillars. :). Here's Brian modeling the hat he made next to a picture of the kind of caterpillar he's supposed to be.


At the next stop, they learned about what caterpillars eat, and they each got w box of raisins. Brian led Eli in search of a waterfall...



We found it!


Yum, raisins!
Next our little caterpillars learned about defenses and crawled through a chrysalis. No pics of that because it was a fiasco! Eli tried to walk through but was too tall and ended up dragging the supports with him and generally destroying everything. So we left quickly. We saw lots of nice flowers and I actually took pictures with my real camera so I'll have to post them later! Last but not least our little caterpillars made butterflies.



Then came the best part...a school bus ride back to the parking lot!

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