a little field trip

You know those kits that come with a collapsable butterfly netted tube-y thing where you send away for the eggs???  And once you get them back, you put the eggs into the netted house and patiently watch the cycle of the butterfly, finally getting to see the butterfly emerge from the chrysalis???

Or the see-thru plastic "ant hill" where, again, you send away for the ants and then pour them into the "hill" and watch them do their thing in dirt???

Well, the company that makes the kits and sends out the critters is Insect Lore, located about 20 minutes from our house.  Sooooo, we took a little field trip out there to poke around the Bug-seum/store they have there.  It's filled with inter-active buggy learning things, collections of butterflies and moths and spiders and..., and windows to watch the workers pick through fluff (and whatever else they use) to find and store insect eggs.  All so very cool!

From there, we hopped over to Jim's office, scooped him up and went to lunch with him.  --best part of the day!