Thursday, October 2, 2008 - Phipp's Conservatory
We had a great field trip to Phipp's Conservatory. I was a little concerned because the last time I was there we got horribly LOST!! But thanks to my very EXCELLENT co-pilot and direction reader extroidinarre, Ashlee, we got there with only one almost wrong turn and one stop sign mishap. (I still don't know where it was and why I didn't see it.)
We had lunch at playground near to Phipp's and let the children run around for awhile. The weather was a little on the cold side but, praise God, there was no rain.
We walked across a bridge to get from the park to the conservatory and my friend, Lisa, almost got dive bombed by a red tail hawk. (Actually I'm pretty sure that it didn't almost run into her but it sure looked like it from my angle.) That was pretty exciting because it decided to perch near us and we all got a great view of this big bird.
We were able to see a lot of different plants and flowers and even trees at the conservatory. My favorites were the fruit trees: lime, giant lime, banana, kumquat...
I also liked the Discovery Garden that was geared more towards the children. We saw some Venus fly traps and pitcher plats. They even had an entire room dedicated to butterflies! We didn't see any monarchs but we did see some of their chrysalises. Cameron was the one that pointed that out.
The big disappointment of the day was my camera, or more specifically, my batteries. I had charged four batteries just the day before so that they would be charged, fresh, and would take a ton of pictures. They were dead. ::sigh::
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Stacie
I hate it when that happens! I think everything is better with pictures. Oh well, maybe next time.
~Stacie
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