An Unusual Day

     Today has been ridiculously cold, so I really didn’t expect a lot of people to be out and about at the museum. At first I thought I was right, as the usual school groups were absent from outside the front of the museum. I was wrong. The minute I walked in there were probably more people than I’ve ever seen there before. It was wild- there were kids everywhere all sitting on the floor eating lunches. Suddenly I could remember so many of the school field trips I had taken just like these when I was a kid.. Then I was out of the thick of it and back to the butterflies.
     Lauren was out today but remembered to give me something to do. I saw ‘Sorting butterflies’ on the board and got pretty excited. I hadn’t done that before, I didn’t even know what it was. Turns out, I got to sort through all the dead butterflies they collect from the main exhibit. I don’t entirely understand what’s done with them but apparently it’s not throwing them away. I sorted out all the somewhat intact butterflies and wings and put them in ziploc bags. I’m pretty sure they sell most of the bags to different kinds of people, maybe they’re used in jewelry. The coolest part was they let me bring some of the nicer specimens to school. The nicest they keep to mount for the museum and maybe the gift shop there.

 A really brilliantly blue butterfly.

A bucket of dead butterflies.