We woke up and got ready and headed off to the Butterfly Pavilion. This place was amazing I think Shauna & I enjoyed it just as much as Ethan did if not more. :o) When you first go in there is a bug section that has everything from hissing cockroaches to tarantulas. There was a working sitting with a tarantula on her hand and people were able to hold them. Ethan actually did it, without hesitation or anything he held Rosie the tarantula so of coarse mommy and babe had to try as well. Holding it was neat but kind of creepy. The next section that we went to was the underwater world with salt water tanks, crab, lobsters, and upside down jellyfish they were pretty cool looking. Ethan also touched a starfish but was scared to touch the hard shelled sting ray. Now time to enter the rain forest.....and when I say rain forest I mean rain forest. It was so humid in there but so beautiful. They have over 1,200 butterflies in the exhibit as well as turtles. You cant touch them but they land on you and are super close to you always. The turtles are hanging out in the exhibit to not in cages or anything they are blocked by just little wooden fences. It was a very interesting place to visit and I had never been to something like that. It was great!!!
Butterfly Pavilion Slide show.......
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Now it was time for lunch!!! CRACKER BARREL!!!! I have to say that this is my all time favorite restaurant pretty much ever! They are a country cooking style restaurant and have so many different kinds of food and even a little country store. We all got something different, I had chicken and dumplings, Shauna had chicken fried chicken, and Ethan had pancakes and bacon. We also got different flavored canes for dessert which we still have some. Lunch was amazing and now onto Ethan's next surprise! I swear thus kid is spoiled rotten lol
Cracker Barrel
The best Chicken & Dumplings EVER!!!!
Ethan loves Cracker Barrel...
Our last kiddo stop for the day was the Denver Children's Museum, we had been to the children's museum in Las Vegas and it is fun also but I will say this place was quite impressive and so clean. There was a real fire truck with tires and all there for the kids to play fire fighters. Then upstairs there was a mini grocery store, a train area, an outdoor animal setup, and Shauna's favorite part- the bubble section! The museum overall was very fun and we enjoyed ourselves, after the museum there was a park in front of it that we let Ethan play around, walk on the train track, and go down to the river.
Denver Children's Museum Collage.....
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We had an indoor pool at the hotel and it said that it was heated so I decided that during our downtime I would take Ethan to the pool and let him play for a little bit, well lets just say if it was heated it wasn't heated enough lol The water was so cold but Bubba still wanted to play for a little so we swam, played with sea creatures and after about 45 mins decided it was time to go back to the room.
Pool Time
Dinner was a bit of a challenge today because we were so tired from all the things we had done for the day that we really didn't want to go to a nice restaurant but we also didn't want fast food. We had heard the there was a 50's diner that had pretty good food so we thought what the heck well try it. The restaurant was very nice we went about 45 mins before closing so they weren't busy at all. The environment was great the workers were really nice also. We had fried pickles which might have been better than Buffalo Wild Wings fried pickles and they we all had our own meal. I made sure to get a special kind of french fry which they said was Elvis Presley's favorite way to eat fries. They were covered with sausage gravy and shredded cheddar cheese, and OMG they were delicious....at this point only at day 3 I thought for sure I was going to gain 10 lbs being here lol
Gunther Toody's 50's Diner
Ethan thought the bike was cool
The night is now over, in the hotel room we went put our jammies on and watched alittle animal planet before bed. Another day down, wishing they didn't go by so fast.....
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