Butterflies and Dinosaurs

Another reason why I absolutely love our neighborhood: we are super close to the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. It's only a short walk through what we refer to as the "squirrel park" (because this place has the fattest squirrels I have ever seen) and we enter through the end of the parking lot. Perfect, right?  The Museum's annual butterfly exhibit is live right now - along with the most awesome dinosaur exhibit!   

My idea is to take a picture here every year with the kids - that gives us a whole year to work on our photography skills ;)

One of these days he will actually face the camera instead of obsessing with his sister's hair.

 

 

 

 A couple of the beautiful butterflies. Zoe had fun finding all the ones listed on the brochure.

Maddox was really interested in them...maybe he wanted to eat one?

The dinosaur exhibit was really well put together.  Many of the dinosaurs were animated and growled (is that right? do dinosaurs 'growl'?) as you walked by, there were excavation sites where you can dig up old fossilized bones and there were also a handful of computerized dinosaur games. 

Zoe was deathly afraid that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was going to eat Maddox. She kept saying"no dinosaurs" for days after. We, being the good parents we are, had to pretend to feed Maddox to dino for the sake of a good picture.

 We can't wait to go back again soon!