Spring Break: Day 1

Dear Ella,

For Spring Break this year, we headed out to San Diego to spend time at your Grammy's house.  Your Auntie Jani and cousins were there too, and we had so much fun!

The first day we were there, we went to the Wild Animal Park (WAP).  You got to do some things there that you didn't get to do the first time you went.  One of those was feeding the lorikeets, which you LOVED!  Many of the children were scared because the birds were so used to being fed by humans that they would just come and land on you, but you couldn't get enough of it.

During a few special weeks each year, the WAP has a room filled with thousands of butterflies.  Walking into this room reminds me of an enchanted forest.  You were kind of unhappy at that time, but you perked up when you got to hold the butterflies.

We were not allowed to touch the butterflies, but it was okay if one landed on us.  Your cousin Lynlee is very clever.  She found a butterfly with a broken wing and coerced it onto this flower, then we were able to look at the butterfly up close without it flying away.

See the broken wing?

I love this picture of your cousin Lynlee with a butterfly on her head.

Even Charlie got in on the butterfly action.

We stopped at the petting corral, where you loved petting the goats.

We also saw this big fake egg shell for us to take pictures in.  You were so cooperative!

Better than the lorikeets, the butterflies, and the petting corral was . . . the cookie break.  It was the happiest you and Lyla had been all day.

I want to get season passes to the WAP because you have so much fun every time you go there.  What a great start to our Spring Break!

Love,

Mom