Saturday April 19, 2014 - Montreal Biodome visit

So for an adventure for the Easter long weekend we decided to drive to Montreal and check out the biodome for the day with the kids. The biodome has 5 different sections that are climatized to different areas of the world such as the tropical rain forest, the laurentian forest, Labrador coast, etc. They have animals and birds that live in the areas living there with plants etc from there. It is quite neat to see. The boys loved it. 

After you walk out of the bat cave area there are these to help you look like a bat. 

Campbell being displaying miles as a bat. 

Campbell as a bat. 

My boys in the tropical rain forest. 

Miles in a fake egg in one of the areas between the different sections. 

Near the biodome is the botanical gardens and in which they have greenhouse that had an exhibit called butterflies set free. An area of the greenhouse that you walk through and there are a huge number of butterflies just everywhere. It was amazing. Campbell wanted one to land on him so badly that he walked through like this, "being a tree" trying and hoping that one would land on him. Of course they didn't. I don't know why but they didn't. He still loved it but he was definitely disappointed. I felt so bad for him. 

At the entrance to the biodome a lady that worked there handed us a large sheet that had over 70 types of birds on it and pictures to go with the names. She said we had to try and find as many as we could while going through. Campbell just loved this is him checking off some of the birds he saw in the laurentian area. He saw 22 and he got to sign his name in a book on the page for 22. He was super proud and got a puffin stamp for his hand. 

It was an amazing day. When we finally made it home at 8:30 in the night, I thought Campbell would be tired and not so thrilled about the trip. But he came in the house and said "this was the best adventure ever." That was the best thing to hear. We all had a blast. 

Thursday April 10, 2014 - Sugar Bush Field Trip

So one of the benefits to having flexible contract work is that I get to spend more time with the kids. Sometimes that is challenging but sometimes it makes for some wonderful shared experiences.

Like getting to volunteer on Campbell's school field trip to the sugar bush. 

Campbell was so thrilled that I was going and then he found out that my group of three was him and his two best buddies. It was so great to see him so excited about me going. Here are a few pictures of our fun time. The four buddies Campbell said. 

Here are the three buddies Campbell, Gibson and Parker, in the petting zoo barn checking out the animals. They had a few horses that were ready to give birth any day.

Three amigos hanging out.

On the wagon ride. Checking out the trees with sap dripping into buckets.

The whole group having our snack.

Crazy guys. But they were so good and we had a lot of fun.

The boys from Campbell's class in the big chair at Stanley's sugar bush.

And lucky us we got to have our taffy treat for our last stop of the day. Yummy!!

Campbell as a maple leaf.