A few weeks ago, we woke up one Saturday with absolutely no plans for the day. We don’t get many weekends like that. So we decided to take advantage of the day and headed to the Monarch Butterfly Festival at Greathouse Butterfly Farm in Earleton, about half an hour away from Gainesville.
We checked out the vendors and Rosemary and Ben potted some milkweek to bring home for our garden.
Then we headed over for some pony rides. Neither of the kids had ever been on a horse before.
Charlotte hung out with me in the sling. Definitely wasn’t stroller terrain around the farm.
The kids enjoyed the tractor too.
Sitting like a such a boy.
Before leaving the farm, we decided to take a walking tour. We figured it would be around 20 minutes or so. It was 45 minutes. And Rosemary and Ben were amazing. They stayed with us the whole time, listened (or at least were quiet), and didn’t complain a bit. Charlotte napped in the wrap.
By the time we left it was lunch time. We drove over to Palatka to eat at Corky Bells on the St. John’s River. The week before we’d read Night of the Moonjellies for Five in a Row so we were in the mood for some good seafood. Rosemary and Ben ate like they’d never seen food before in their lives.
Everything was delicious!
And before heading home, we headed down to the dock to see the river and the boats that had pulled up to grab a bite too.
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