We went to a place called Butterfly World where you can see all the butterflies and insects and ants and playgrounds you could ever imagine! We first came in, a little bit late, and went into the first playground we saw, waiting there for the workshop to start at 12:30. The playground had a huge slide leading into a massive sandpit (I tried to avoid this, as I didn’t want to get sandy, but a four-year-old girl forced me to go on with her), a massive climbing frame, loads more slides and ropes and things and much more. You know, I found this archway by the climbing frame, went through it and found another slide.
At the workshop, it was like a Rainforest Workshop. We learnt about all the animals who lived in the different layers of the rainforest (Canopy, Forest Floor, Understory) and everything else you would think children might be learning about the rainforests.
I also held a cockroach, but unlike most cockroaches on me, this one didn’t really move apart from twitching his leg slightly, occasionally, and I think he was half-asleep – or sleep-twitching. So, he wasn’t very energized after all (if that is how you spell ‘energized’ in the English language, of course).
We also saw some ants before going back into the playground. We saw leafcutter ants, soldier ants and builder ants. Though there was a Queen Ant, we never saw it, and neither did the lady guiding us around – and even she’d never seen it in her whole entire life of guiding and butterflies. (Why they would put the words ‘butter’ and ‘flies’ in ‘butterflies’, which isn’t a word, it’s words? I know I’m speaking utter nonsence now, but I really can’t help it.) Did you know that prince and princess ants have wings?
Then we went and played a game called ‘SurvivalCraft’. You may have heard of it before, but not this one. This one wasn’t on a computer, and we had been abandoned on the Sahara Desert – a sandpit – and were using rocks as meat and chalk from another rock as salt. Being weird, I know.
