Trip to the Desert Botanical Gardens
November 12th, 2010

 

We got a steal-of-a-deal on a Desert Botanical Gardens membership, thanks to Groupon! We've made a few purchases from Groupon. They have some awesome deals! You have to try it!

Anyways ;) , so I decided to put our DBG membership to use and take the girlies to it a few weeks ago. Grammy joined us too. It was fun! They have some nice, easy paths for the girlies to walk. We got to see hummingbirds, butterflies and lots of flowers and Arizona-native plants. In addition, we happen to be there when the Gardens had their "Chocolate and Chiles" event. Sweet! Literally ;) Us 6 girls induldged in several samples of yummy chocolatey goodness. Mmmm! :) Here are some pics of our morning outing.
 
Pictures of some native plants...a cactus. Yes, lots of cacti here in our state ;)
 
Purple wildflower daisies
 
Yellow daisies
 
Grammy with her girlies :)
 
Aloe
 
More aloe
 
The Gardens have a butterfly exhibit. The girls LOVED it! It was only Monarchs but come spring there are other species fluttering around too.
 
The girls looking at all of the butterflies
 
 
 
 
I believe these are females. Males have spots on their tales and females do not. The butterfly expert in the exhibit told us that. Very interesting!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Suzan was pretty proud that the shirt she wore had a butterfly on it - Ha! :D
 
The girlies after a snack of chocolate and homemade Kettle Corn Mama brought (again ;) )...Suzan
 
Brielle
 
Anna
 
Bethany