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.