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How to Eat Fried Worms...

A. Go to the Quail Botanical Gardens during their (annual?) Insect Festival.
B. Walk to the booth where they are offering up free worms for tasting.
C. Insist that your husband try at least one.
D. Just for fun, see if the littlest one in the family will go for it, as well.

Two movies below: 1) Sean 2) Roxy

Though both Sean and I were exhausted from having very busy days yesterday, we chose to get out and do something fun with the girls today. We really did have a great time at the Gardens - our first time there. Sean took a ton of pictures (some below). The girls got to touch many different kinds of bugs. There were giant African millipedes (about a foot long and HUGE) for everyone to hold. We saw tarantulas, scorpions, beetles, butterflies, bullfrogs, bees making honey, and hundreds of other little species both alive and pinned to boards. There was a craft table where the girls got to paint and glue eyes to rocks to look like bugs (Roxy tried to make a bee and Dillen made a ladybug). They played in water, enjoyed the miniature train and played in the playhouse. On the way out we walked through the bamboo forest where tons of ladybugs were living. The girls both had a great time catching and holding them.

We wound up buying a family membership to enjoy the fun of the Gardens year-round.

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