We went back to Scottsdale today to visit Butterfly Wonderland. This facility is located on Native American
tribal land and is the first attraction to open in a huge planned complex of tourist
attractions that will eventually include an aquarium, an IMAX theater, a Ripley’s
Believe-It-or-Not, something called the Arizona Experience, and over 16 retail
shops and restaurants.
Visiting a butterfly wonderland sounds boring but it was pretty interesting. You start off watching a 3-D movie about butterfly migration called ”Flight of the Butterflies" that was very well done. Next, you visit displays of butterflies hatching in various stages of the process in the Butterfly Emergence Gallery. The main attraction however is going into a huge butterfly conservatory. It is a glass-enclosed atrium that is home to thousands of butterflies in a lush tropical environment with waterfalls and a Koi pond.
After the
conservatory, we visited a small aquarium and desert critter exhibit on the way out. They were O.K. and something else for the
kids to do after seeing the butterflies.
We then drove
over to Sun City Grand, the newest Del Webb Sun City development about 4 miles
from our RV park. We met friends Rich and Sylvia
Aunger and his sister Carole at their house for drinks, then dinner out at a
great Mexican restaurant we visited during our last visit with the
Aungers in 2013. After dinner and a guided tour of the Sun City community, we went back to the RV and retired for the evening.
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