beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

Butterflies are made of joy!
This is how they stay up. They are the happy thoughts.
They chase each other and dance and fly everywhere and then they sit still and mostly you can't see them cause when they close their wings there's just brown. Sometimes though they sit with them open and they are many many colors. I saw ones that were shiny blue, and PURPLE (because mere purple doesn't describe how PURPLE they were in the sunshine), and stripy yellow, and orange, and some very goth ones in different patterns of red and black, and also the best ones which were mostly see through. They're magic. Invisible butterfly!

Also there was a blue tongued skink. You could see when it went :p

And there was a chameleon. You could see that too. It was many patterns and colors. And it's eyes went different directions. And when I went back later it was different.

And there were birds of prey. We got there just in time to see the display, which was good because the later one was cancelled because of too much wind. There was an old o.a.p. bird, I think it was a buzzard. It flew right low over everyone. It flew right near me. I was sitting on the floor (I took the bag that has a fold out flap for sitting on) and it still flew right over me low down. Then there was a vulture called Nutty. He's funny. He won't fly, and he doesn't want to go back in the box. Also someone had a picnic blanket with stringy bits round the edge and they must have looked like yummy worms cause Nutty tried to eats it. And he runs around where everyone is sitting. And then there was an eagle owl, with tufty ears. Owls heads go round and round. And then afterwards you could hold a little barn owl. I didn't, but I did look. They had other birds too, including a falcon that was lying on the sandy floor in it's box and looked a bit like it had tried to fly off and fell down, only more comfortable. And they had an American Bald Eagle being the biggest thing in the display. Biiiig. And also they had snowy owls, which are just cool.

There were mini goats, and llamas, and water buffalo, and a shetland pony, and a goat that looked like Jar-Jar especially when it walked, and a Pheasants of the World collection (some of them are painted with all the colors. I decided one looked like the 6th Doctor it was that many colors. But not actually plaid.) And there were guinea pigs and possums but not actually a wallaby because it died.

I liked the racoons. There were racoons. They've got little thief masks and clever hands.

Mostly though there were butterflies. In a tropical greenhouse. I drank two whole bottles of lucozade in there. And my hat is a very good hat because butterflies like it, but it's probably a better hat for people standing next to me because I can't see my hat with the butterflies on it.

They fly everywhere! Pretty!



I bought a couple of packs of cards because they have all butterflies on them. And I bought a bracelet and a necklace and a brooch and a butterfly identification sheet. Many pictures of many butterflies :-)



And I nearly fell asleep in the car. Getting there was harder than getting back. Home has actual signposts pointing at it, but the butterfly place hadn't a sign until you were pretty much there. We only went wrong on the way there twice, and not at all on the way back, and we got to the right place, and I did the map reading, so win.


I had very good day!




... my brother had a less good day, for he had no interest in any of this and mostly wanted to watch DVDs on the portable machine but it ran out of battery.

And one small nearly-baby person had a no good very bad day, cause the butterfly landed on it and these butterflies is hand sized on a grown up so there was BUG AS BIG AS IT'S HEAD landed on it and flapping and everyone was pointing and saying it was sweet and the tiny person thought it was VERY BAD and start screaming loudly to tell everyone so. I can see their point. I mean they're shiny but when you're too small to have any context or explanations they're just these big weird alien bugs as BIG AS YOUR HEAD and, well, that's not a good day.

But mostly people were having a good day. I liked it. Lots of fun.


And butterflies!

... I need to icon some butterflies now.
... or, later, for I have been awake long and am most tired.