For our last day with Grandma and Grandpa in town, we stayed local to explore a new place that Maddie had recently taken a field trip to: the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, in Claremont (which is approximately 10 minutes away from our house). We particularly enjoyed the expertise our junior tour guide brought to the experience! ;)
We practically had the entire place to ourselves and the weather was pleasant, which combined, made for a delightful outing.
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| Those who were willing to stop and pose for a picture...someone else was being a bit persnickety about joining in! |
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| Maddie, aka "junior tour guide", leading the way! |
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| Pretty pops of color. |
After I got over my paranoia of being enclosed in a tent full of flying insects, we enjoyed exploring the Butterfly Garden, and even saw a butterfly hatching (I don't know if that's what it's called??) from its cocoon. I tell you, it took a little bit of a pep-talk to get me to walk through there. No, they didn't hurt me, or land on me, but I just get a bit jumpy when I'm around insects as it is...flying ones aren't super easy for me. Just being honest!
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| I definitely did not volunteer to hold the caterpillar. |
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| It was pretty cool to see the butterfly emerge. |
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| I applauded him for being excited about the idea of having a butterfly land on his hand! |
Exploring the gardens gave us plenty of photo-ops! Enjoy!
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| My girl loves selfies as much as I do! |
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| Closing in on the end of her 1st grade career. Wow. |
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| Posing with some unique plants within the Joshua Tree gardens. |
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| A giant plant soaring over the trail. |
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| My beautiful mother-in-law, who humors me -- pretty sure I hit the jack-pot! |
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| Two exceptional guys. |
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| She made a super junior tour guide -- if you're in need of someone who knows how to read signs and follow pathways in the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, I can hook you up. |
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