Powell Gardens

We went to Powell Gardens to see a puppet show on Saturday...

but first, some pictures of Ashley playing outside at our house.

Oh, to be so care free!

Jeremy tickling Ashley with a blade of fox tail.

Ashley with the giant praying mantis at Powell Gardens...

and, the main reason we came: a puppet show featuring Ashley's favorite song: Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee!

Abby and Ashley watching the show from Gran's lap.

Ironically, the show was about a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly...

and as we were leaving, my mother-in-law spotted this on one of the chairs:

Pretty cool :-)

We went to the top of this silo:

The staircase from the bottom, looking up:

And, from the top, down.  (We cheated and rode the elevator, though!)

Some aerial views of Powell Gardens:

Ashley and her cousins playing in the water fountain.

The plan was to let the girls play in the bigger fountains, but Ashley and Abby were either afraid of the jets or the unruly big kids (or both.)

Ashley in the butterfly garden... she thought that the caterpillars were something else :-).

(There is one right above her hand in the picture above... you can click on it to enlarge.)