the Flight of the Butterflies

Yesterday I was able to relive one of the most memorable things I have witnessed in my life: the flight of the butterflies.

I have always referred to it as the Monarch Migration because that's really what it is. Back in 2010, when my mom and I took the trip to Mexico City to see them, I blogged about it here: (the Monarch Migration).

(That clump of leaves in the photo above is actually butterflies, not leaves.)

Yesterday I felt like I was there again.

Mike and I went to the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake to see a couple of movies. We watched the Rocky Mountain Express and the Flight of the Butterflies. Both were great films, but when I watched the Flight of the Butterflies, I felt like I was having déjà vu! I loved that Mike was able to watch the film, and perhaps feel a little bit of what it was like to be there in real life, it may be the closest he ever gets, but it felt very accurate.

I am blogging about it because I think everyone should go watch the film! Mike said that it was one of the best 3-D movies he had ever seen! This is the trailer for it:



Seriously soooooo good! I highly, highly recommend it!

Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point

Mike and I got to visit the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. It was pretty interesting and fun. They had a lot of areas that would have been a blast if we had a kid, but since it was just the two of us, we skipped those parts and looked at the dinosaur skeletons.

We figured that the dinosaur skeletons that they kept out in the open were just replicas but that the skeletons behind glass must've been real. Real or not, it's always fun to see life-size dinosaur replica's and think of what it must have been like back in day when they roamed the Earth.

Mike in the middle of a Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) brawl:

Me by the Triceratops (it doesn't really look that huge now does it?):

 Mike going head to head with the Triceratops (okay, skull to skull, it's lots bigger):

My favorite part of the dinosaur museum was the eggs! Maybe I am all about babies right now, maybe it was just really interesting, either way, I loved seeing all the different shapes and sizes of the dinosaur eggs.

Mike between the Aepyornis Maximus (Elephant Bird) and its egg. Can you believe that these went extinct in 1700 A.D.? Just a few hundred years more and we could have witnessed them roaming the Earth! Though a 10 foot, 1,000 pound bird could reek major havoc I suppose, it just would have been neat to see. 

We had lots of fun, I can't wait to go back one day but to be able to take our own little girl to enjoy all the exhibits set up just for kids!