Butterflies

Last Friday night, Julia had her Awana T&T halfway party. It was for girls who have finished at least half of their book for the year. After the party, her friend Elizabeth came home with Julia for a sleepover. Of course all our other kids were very excited to have a new kid here. All the kids stayed up late playing. Finally we made everyone go to bed except Julia and Elizabeth. They played the Game of Life until 11:30-ish, with Elizabeth winning.

The next morning the kids played more, until we left to see the Monarch butterflies in Pismo Beach. It was foggy and chilly, and the butterflies were pretty still. A few were moving around in a few areas.


All the kids liked looking through Brian's binoculars. Austin also brought his own binoculars he got when he and Brian went camping last October.


Elizabeth showed Julia and Lauren how to sign "butterfly".


We walked along the path through the butterfly grove, then continued along through the campground, till we got to the beach, kind of the edge of the beach, actually. There's a lot of driftwood and white, weathered trees in the sand. I think that was all the kids' favorite part of the day: climbing and swinging and bouncing on the driftwood and trees!

Lauren ripped her pants climbing on the wood. Uh oh. These two bounced on this branch for quite awhile. Lauren joined them, too. They rode it like a horse. :)

We turned around to walk back through the campground when we got hungry. The butterflies were much more active and fluttering around as we left the grove. The sun had come out and warmed things up. :) We went out for lunch at McDonald's and then took Elizabeth home.