adventures in arizona: tucson botanical gardens & butterfly magic

In February we took short morning trip to the Tucson Botanical Garden to check out Butterfly Magic. The botanical gardens has been on my list of things to do for awhile, so when our friend Becky asked if we'd like to join them I jumped at the chance. It was a very chilly day, but the butterflies had it made in their warm greenhouse made complete with ponds and beautiful tropical flowers.

It took the kids a while to find to butterflies as they flew about, but once they spotted them they had fun looking at them with magnifying glasses.

A volunteer points out a butterfly to the kids.

This butterfly landed on Becky and couldn't quite let go of her sweater! A volunteer had to come assist  it!

"Show me your magnifying glasses"

I think we'll take a trip back to the gardens during the spring. The butterfly magic part was fun, but the rest of the gardens was essentially all winterized. I imagine its very beautiful when everything is in bloom. April is the last month of Butterfly Magic so I'd head over to check out the beautiful butterflies!