wisley gardens

My friend and colleague has season passes to Wisley Gardens, which is not far from Esher.  Her son, Daniel, is in Tim's class, and they are good friends.  We met them at the gardens today and checked out the butterfly pavilion.

 I kept Luke out of nursery today so that he could join us on this outing. 

Just one of the many butterflies that we saw today.  They flew around our heads, landed and stayed still so that we could marvel at their colors and also just hung out.

Tim was very careful not to touch the butterflies or their habitat.

We got to walk behind the waterfall as well as in front of it.  Luke is watching Tim on the other side.

Tim, waving to Luke and me.

I thought yesterday was a miserable weather day, but today makes yesterday look like the epitome of mild.  At one point there were so many puddles on the sidewalk and the wind was blowing so hard, that it was blowing the water out of the puddles and up into my face.  Guess how I feel about this?