Butterflies

Yesterday we took a trip to Houston to visit the Museum of Natural Science and our theme of the day was butterflies.

First we saw the movie 'Flight of the Butterflies' on the giant 3D screen.

What an amazing story! A short summary about the movie:

It’s a natural history epic. It’s a compelling detective story. It’s a scientific adventure at its best. It took Dr. Fred Urquhart almost 40 years to discover the monarch butterflies’ secret hideaway and prove the most incredible migration on Earth. Following the year-long annual migration cycle of the butterflies, the award-winning production team filmed hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico in 2011 and again in 2012 and also along their migratory routes from Canada, across the U.S. and into Mexico. The technology of IMAX® immerses you in the astounding migration experience as two generations of the butterflies migrate north and then a Super Generation miraculously finds its way from Canada to a few isolated mountaintops in Mexico – to a place it has never been!

After the movie we visited the butterfly garden and saw some real specimens

Yes, I realize the above is not a butterfly :)