Houston Museum of Natural Sciences - 01/10/1999
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The Butterfly Garden

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bttrfly.gif (7313 bytes)Houston Museum of Natural Sciences actually has more than just the famous Butterfly Garden.  But of course, since butterflies are one of Nancy's favorites, we headed that way first!  It's no surprise that Nancy is the most excited one of them all.  She even wore the suggested bright clothing, hoping one of the butterflies would land on her.  As for me, I think the wings of the butterflies are pretty and some are even gorgeous, but they are still bugs to me!!!!  Yeeekkk.  As you can see I am wear almost all black.....   :)

bttrfly.gif (7313 bytes)Inside the butterfly garden, the temperature was set to be about 80 degrees.   It was cold outside that day, so all of us were wearing warm clothings.  No one knew that the temperature inside of this glass building was going to be soooo hot!   We were all sweating!!!!  But the scenery is sure worth it! <see below>

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Above is just two of the few butterflies we seen that day.  The whole place was crowded with butterflies that day.  It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be.  The brochure stated that most of the butterflies die within two weeks.  Isn't that short?  It's too bad that their life is so short.

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Okay, here are all the movies that we recorded:

Butterfly1.mpg - really good one, you actually see the butterflies!
Butterfly2.mpg - Okay, I'm not as a good movie taker as Eddie is, but you kinda get to see some butterfly in flying action!
Butterfly3.mpg - Better one that I took.
Butterfly4.mpg - A little Museum of Natural Sciences intro done by Eddie (until Nancy interrupted him).