Palmengarten

The Palmengarten (palms garden) is a large botanical park in Frankfurt. It's like a large version of the tropical rainforest at the Baltimore aquarium. The top photo is Elias and I posing on the stepping stones in a pond. He wouldn't take his eyes off the huge fish, though. Yes, my scarf got wet. I'm not really sure what we're doing in the second photo.

The best part was the butterfly exhibit (the German word for butterfly is Schmetterling), which was a room filled with thousands of tropical butterflies, which fly all around you. You can imagine the visual stimulation. The last time that Jenny and Elias were there, lots of kids were trying to get butterflies to land on them, without success; but one landed on Elias. A bad choice for the butterfly--it nearly got eaten.

On another note, I see we need to post a lot more video if we want to keep up with the Powells of Utah and Hampden. Soon...