Butterflies

Today is the first day of working and taking care of Sena (grandma and grandpa are in Asheville). So, I decided to take Sena to the Butterfly Pavilion (www.butterflies.org) at Jessica's request. Not sure what to really expect, I packed her up thinking she'd at least be entranced by the winged creatures. At first, she really was. Red, blue, green, pink. The butterflies were amazing. They even had a Blue Morpho, which I think was the allusive butterfly in The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. At 12:30 they announced they'd be "releasing the butterflies." Expecting a super cool display, we set ourselves up early and waited, and then the butterfly expert came out with a cage full of new baby butterflies. Beautiful, but Sena was at this point disinterested. Her attention span was gone and she wanted to walk around. So, we walked around and she looked at butterflies, and the exotic plants, and then she found the most amazing thing of all—the drain. And, that was the end of her interest in butterflies.