And for my next trick...

I'm still not done showing pics from our mini-mini-mini vacay to Cheyenne. Here's a classic one for ya.

This is how I occupied myself one morning in the hotel room while Scott was out with the girls...

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Cheyenne Botanic Garden Children's Village

The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens is the home of the Children's Village & it is SUPERB!! My girls loved it & it was one of the highlights of our trip for sure.

HERE is a great article about the Village. I didn't realize it when we visited, but it has only been open since September of 2009.

Inside the little greenhouse.

(Look! I see Oompa Loompa hair!)

Daddy got all artistic on us. Who knew?

He found some maps of the Children's Village & my girls would NOT let go of them! They felt so proud looking at the pictures on the map & recognizing where we were in the Village. I loved it!

The Secret Garden.

Shhh! It's a Secret {Garden} jump.

The puppet theatre. Zoey entertained her sister.

A secret door.

A secret key.

Pazely, who loves animals, was wild about this "dog" house/play house.

The roof of the "dog" house was covered in this stuff. Just beautiful!!

A vertical xylophone.

A ferry--where you pull yourself from one "shore" to the other.

Archimedes screw.

Sidewalk chalk artwork from school children that visited.

Goodbye. (She's still got her map!)

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Cheyenne Botanic Gardens

On our very recent (I'm not yet unpacked) mini-mini-mini vacay to Cheyenne, one of my favorite places we went was to the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens at Lions Park.

Oh, & I have no idea what most of the plant names are.

THIS, I know, is a coffee plant. Cool huh? A little creamer & sugar & you're good to go!

Ok, not really.

And these flowers of the Angel Trumpet Vine are HUGE. Like, as big as my head huge. And they are poisonous--if any part of them is ingested.

Very beautiful though!

Greenhouse penthouse.

1-2-3...greenhouse jump....GO!

Fuzzy wuzzy was a plant.

Melted butter! I KNEW I forgot something!!!

Tee hee! I love me some gnomie.

It's sticky, mom!

I really loved how the greenhouse got my girls' senses going. They were touching & feeling (where allowed) & really intrigued by it all. We loved the Herb Garden too!

Except Pazely didn't like that particular smell.

After the greenhouse we took a walk around the grounds to see the different gardens.

Next I'll share about the Children's Village at the Botanic Gardens---which was my MOST bestest favorite part!!!

The cool thing about visiting the Gardens was the cost: FREE!

{Donations happily accepted though.}

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