Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

Two weekends ago, we went up to Epcot for the Flower and Garden Festival.  It had just started when I was there with my family in March but Kevin hadn't gotten a chance to go this year yet.  As usual, the flower the flowers are just BEAUTIFUL and the topiaries are great!

The designs around some of the water this year are butterflies.

When we were in the butterfly house back in March, it was cool but now there are even more butterflies since they always have a bunch chrysalises in different stages of becoming butterflies.

There were so many different kinds that you could see this time and they were everywhere it seemed.

Kaelyn showing Ellie and Garmin a butterfly. 

(She really doesn't pose for all these things with her pals.  They are just such a part of her life.  She almost always has a couple of them with her whenever she's doing anything.)

The theme of the butterly house this year was Bambi.

And Flower the skunk even had a butterfly resting on his eye when we went by the topiaries.

A beautiful picture!

Kaelyn decided she would like to have her face painted this time.  That was VERY surprising considering she can hardly stand the feeling of stuff on her skin.  If we don't get the soap rinsed off her quickly when she's in the bathtub, it drives her crazy.

She decided on a simple butterfly on her forehead.

Starting to look prettier.

She was so very proud of it and didn't seem to be bothered by having it on her.

She thought it was a great idea to duck down by the flowers so she could pretend that she was a butterfly sitting on the flowers.

I was wondering if anyone would say anything if they saw me in the flower beds cutting some roses to take with me.

:-)  They were just SOOO pretty!

The pictures above and below were taken back in the Canada pavilion.  It always looks pretty in "Canada" and some of these flowers and the landscaping is like this all the time.  I've always thought that Epcot is a particularly pretty park.

Soccer hat from one of the stores in the UK pavilion.  We didn't buy it; she was just modeling it for us.  :-)

One of the things we did that we have never taken the time to do before was watch a Chinese acrobat show back in the China pavilion.  We caught the ending of part of one one time but this was actually a different show with different stunts and it was AMAZING!

We were sitting right up front on the ground as close as people were allowed to sit.  Kaelyn kept on saying, "Oh my goodness!  I could never do that!!!"  :-)

The other acrobats also did cool stuff but the tricks they did were harder to catch on camera.

The strength that this kind of thing takes is unbelievable.  You can see the look of extreme concentration on this guy's face.

This was part of the grand finale.

It was a beautiful day to be at Epcot.  So if any of you ever want to come on down, the Flower & Garden Festival is the perfect time to visit Epcot and we would be happy to take you!  :-)