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Showing posts with label Family Outings. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father's Day at Powell Gardens

For Father's Day today, we took Jason out to breakfast and then to Powell Gardens, our local botanical garden.  They are having a dinosaur exhibit this year and the boys LOVE dinosaurs.


We spent a couple hours walking around, searching for the dinosaurs and enjoying the beautiful flowers and plants.


I love Clematis!



In the Island Garden, they have planters filled with water and water plants.  A couple of these planters had tadpoles in them!  We thought that was super cool!

It was a lot of fun searching for the dinosaurs. One of them had us stumped for quite a while!


Each set of dinosaurs had a display board that gave facts about the dinosaur.  They also had QR codes that you can scan with your code scanner on your smartphone which opens up a YouTube video showing more pictures and giving more information about the dinosaur.  VERY cool!  My boys were a little young for all of it.  We tried reading the display boards to them, but they were more interested in the bugs crawling on the ground!  Haha!

I would highly recommend Powell Gardens for your next family outing!

We all enjoyed our Father's Day!  I hope you all did, too!