Today, Brett and I drove out to Grand Rapids to Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park for their Butterflies are Blooming exhibit! I haven't been since I was a kid and Brett has never been, so we figured it was the perfect time. The exhibit is amazing. There are butterflies flying everywhere.. hundreds of them! You walk this little tour through a super warm jungle and cross over through nets (so the butterflies don't hitchhike out of there!) and are bombarded with the most colorful, amazing butterflies ever. Our son, Dill, would have been so proud. He left the nest last September.
The butterflies come from tropical regions of South America, Asia and Africa and are right at home here! The butterflies arrive as chrysalises, the moths as cocoons, and both are put into the butterfly bungalow. Within days, they emerge and when they are ready to fly, often within an hour, the staff releases them on plants to allow them to adjust to their new home. It's amazing to see butterflies flying, soaring and hovering freely, then congregating along streambeds, and drinking nectar from flowering plants and feeding stations!
These kinds of things are the things that Brett and I have done since we first met - and will always continue to do and love. The things that your parents dragged you to when you were little? You can bet Brett and I will love it. We've been to every museum, every exhibit, every dumb little tourist attraction in west Michigan and make it a habit to continue to take adventures and trips all the time. It was our goal to take a once-a-month day or weekend trip, but since this semester has been so busy for the both of us - we haven't gotten much of a chance, but we have amazing trips planned every month for the rest of the year. This blog was originally just to document my life until it took a fashion turn (so glad it did!) but I still want to document these types of things.. so I hope I don't bore all of you to death!
I couldn't show any pictures of my outfit today because I had to take photos for a planned post next week! You'll see what I'm talking about soon! I'm really excited to announce a few things this week and next! April looks like it's going to be an amazing month. Plus, the weather forecast for this upcoming week looks amazing! In the range of 57 to 67 degrees! You can bet I'll be bringing out more of those spring clothes!
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Woo! Butterflies!
this place is amazing, I want to go! I wish we had something like this in New Jersey. & I only hope that me and my boyfriend turn into you and Brett, you guys seem so cute and perfect together!
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What fun! I love butterflies. :)
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Gorgeous butterflies!
What a fun exhibit! I love butterflies! They're so colorful and magical.
Oh, Tieka these pictures are BEAUTIFUL!! I love the one of Brett w/ the butterfly on him!
Wow how exciting! Those butterflies look like fun!
These pics are amazing - look at the colours! I'd love to see more posts like this; us readers get to see different parts of the world as well as your style. :-)
Looks like a lot of fun! :)
Aww, I love this. I think it's sweet you and Brett do these kinds of things together -- I wish we had a butterfly garden near us. I remember keeping a caterpillar as a pet for a second grade project and it was so awesome to see them fly away on "graduation" day. :)
The butterflies are so lovely! I think its wonderful that you go on day trips every month, so sweet!!!
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I love posts like this.. i wish i lived around exhibits like that to go to!! uhh but please dont stop making posts like this!!!
so nice! I love butterflies too and I didn't know that there's a place where you can hang out and look at them. so nice!
ahh I wanna go there just found out it's only in MI! ahh!
That looks amazing! I remember going to a butterfly farm in Singapore when I was little, it was so beautiful :)
By the way, you're going to be the featured blogger tomorrow on Wikifashion :)
this is so fun!
I went to a museum in San Francisco with just the same thing, a 3 story rainforest you walked through, it was soo humid but so amazing!
These butterfly pictures are so beautiful! Thanks for sharing. :) I'm excited to see what you're bringing us in April.
oh that´s just amazing! woul´ve loved to be there. so beautiful with all the butterflies!
no these are great, not boring at all! :) I really love posts like this. It gives me reminders that I need to do more things like this when I become unswamped with school. I love love love going to the art gallery, science world, museums and all those things too!
so not boring! I love doing off the beaten path "adventures" :)
Oooh I wanna go! I have such a love for butterflies. Brett looks so cute in there with them! You look super lovely too..I love your fringe. Glad you guys had fun today. <3
document away girl! Brett & Tieka posts are some of my favs! The butterfly gardens look incredible!! Robin and I were married at a conservatory similar sounding to the place you two went, but we had our reception in a tent outside in the park, so no butterflies for us. :( Ok...that didn't make much sense. The place we were married has an area where you can walk through and the butterflies will fly all round you! haha!
They all look so beautiful! We have a similar place here at the museum. You go in and its a three story high room filled with butterflies.
I love taking wee trips like this, my boyf and I try to do them often too. Even if its just an afternoon picnic of four wheel driving and exploring.
Ooh, pretty! I went to a butterfly garden once when I was a kid and LOVED it. They're just so beautiful. I wish the insect section at my zoo had more of them.
Yippee! I go to Fredrick Meijer Gardens every year for that! I'm so glad they are there :)
The Christmas tree exhibit is also amazing, if you've never been.
Oh so beautiful, I had my 4th birthday party at a butterfly house, they still amaze me as much as they did back then
oh my...so gorgeous i love butterflies!!! you guys are still the cutest couple i know!!!
I always pass that billboard on my way downtown! I hope to make it there sometime. Where I used to live in Canada, they had a butterfly exhibit every year and I loved it. You and Brett seem like such a fun couple.
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I have a semi irrational fear of butterfly gardens. i love watching them fly around with their pretty colors, but I hate when they land on you haha. Glad you had fun though
Oh we just love Frederik Meijer Gardens... I take the kids all the time!
Those butterflies are so beautiful! We have something here called Botanical Gardens- it's actually where Emily and her husband got married- that has the most beautiful exhibitions as well! Makes me want to get out there and enjoy it! Don't you love doing cheesy yet adorable activities with Brett?!
Aw everything looks so pretty! Love it.
I'm so glad you got to go on another adventure! The butterflies look amazing!!
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So pretty! really great photos too! Btw, I've tagged you for a 'Happy 101' award on my blog at - http://cocojones.tumblr.com/post/479633442/nightspring
Oh I LOVE butterflies! I wish we had an exhibit like that here. Maybe I will have to venture up the canyons this Spring to see if I can spot some.
that sounds like such a cool exhibit! Can't wait to hear all the exciting things :)
That's crazy! Nick and I are going to a butterfly house soon!
I've heard about this place! Sounds/looks amazing. xo.
that looks incredible! how fun.
What a frickin' cool place!!! Pics look awesome! :)
these photos are great. i love butterfly houses! they are so fun. xx
There was a butterfly jungle at one of the museums in London last summer and I so desperately wanted to go but nobody would venture in with me because there were so many children around. Seeings these pics definitely makes me wish I had just taken a trip inside by myself! :)
oh i love this. me and my boyfriend went to the butterfly rainforest museum in Gainesville last May and it was so much fun! We weren't lucky enough to have any land on us though. I think you had to be really still and I failed at that.
This looks like so much fun! I love doing stuff like that. Mike and I are thinking about going to the cherry blossom festival in DC this weekend, A festival for trees! What could be better?
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Wow, that looks like an absolute delight!
You remind me of me and my husband. We always enjoy doing things like that - especially just going somewhere random and having a picnic. Its nice spending time with the person you love =)
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I love going to butterfly farms and watch the beautiful creatures flying around you. They are such great photography subjects too.
I wish my kids will tell me that I look like a butterfly instead of a bug. Hahaha!
Have a lovely day Tieka! xoxo
I love going to things like this. There's a great butterfly exhibit at the Detroit Zoo!
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Oh butterflies! So wonderful, these pictures remind me of Kew Gardens, which is totally spectacular btw if you ever visit England. I love the posts which delve into your day-to-day because as you said, that is what you started your blog about!
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That looks like such a fun and beautiful place to go, you're so lucky that it's close to you! This makes me think of a time my mom went to a butterfly garden - they told her to wear bright colors to attract the butterflys, so she wore this OBNOXIOUS orange and yellow outfit. Unfortunetly she didn't attract ANY butterflies, and instead just looked crazy aha
LOVE THE BUTTERFLIES!
dont worry about boring blogworld with your posts about daily life adventures vs outfit posts...it's just as fun! :)
Tieka, I love that you two work to have fun things to do together. It seems like you're never bored, which is awesome. Keep up the "life" posts too! It's all interesting, believe me.
ahhh, beautiful butterflies! i love the colors!
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i just have to say... i look at your blog regularly and you two are an adorable couple Tieka :)
Looks like fun! K and I also love to do things like that. You'd think it was Christmas or something from how excited we get about free museum day! By the way, I have a feeling you guys might like Biltmore Estate in NC if you haven't been-- though I know it's a bit of a trek for you. Also, if you go near the Ohio border, the Toledo art museum is free and it's huge with lots of special exhibits. K and I used to spend Saturdays there :)
Aww. I love butterflies. I haven't been to our local butterfly pavillion in years, and this makes me want to go!
simply magical!
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simply magical!
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aw! this seems like such an awesome field trip :) you and brett are far too cute!
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These pics are adorable!!! Butterflys are so beautiful
Rianna Bethany xxx
we have a place near us like this and it's the best to go to in the dead of winter because it's filled with beautiful butterflies and is 80 degrees! looks like you both had a great time! also, the image of you in the first post with the yellow balloons is AMAZING!
My man and I love things like this too! We love to go to the zoo and to the nature trails.
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[My boyfriend has the same shirt as Brett but in grey and black... my boyfriend says he really likes the green!!!! Lol, fashion for boys :) ]
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