Memorial Weekend

May turned out to be a busy travel month. Beside a trip to Ft. Worth we spend the Memorial weekend in Houston attending a couple of family parties and enjoying the local sights.

On Sunday, we rolled out of the house kind of late and spent some quality time admiring ducks and ducklings at some office complex off I10. The girls had a good time feeding them bread and chasing them around. Simone doesn't seem a big fan of crawling over grass and sand on her bare knees, but that doesn't really stop her.

On Monday, we visited the Cockrell Butterfly Center (if you go on a busy weekend, make sure to pre-order tickets online and then pick them up a will-call while laughing at the throngs waiting to buy tickets). They reversed the tour from last time we were there in 2003 but it's still as cool as ever and starts off with an impressive roach collection. We were looking for the cool iguana we admired last time, alas, he's no more, having plunged to his death from the waterfall!

Magda loved it when she could get a butterfly to crawl on her finger so that should could admire it from close up. Simone had a good time, too, trying to grab some insects, but without much success (it's not easy when mom keeps you away from them).