I learned about a park that is close to us that has a small museum with an old Japanese house. To get to the house we had to hike up a hill through a beautiful bamboo forest. Melina found a giant grasshopper that she caught and brought with her. Seeing the old large house was pretty interesting as well. Melina got to take a picture with a cosplayer for what I was told is the currently popular anime "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba”.
Butterfly #3:
Soon to come, butterfly #4.
She just keeps finding the caterpillars.
We had a nice lunch and afternoon at a herbal garden. Melina got to help with cutting the wheat and feeding the horse.
Melina found a caterpillar in the garden and we raised it until one day it turned into a butterfly:
What better thing to do when stuck at home than science experiments. I decided to try to make rock candy with Melina, and was really surprised at how well it turned out. I remember making it as a kid, and remember the whole jar turning to crystals with my string having very few crystals, so whatever we did this time had great results as you can see.
No big party for Easter this year, obviously due to fears of COVID-19, but we still celebrated as a family. We made Easter eggs, did our egg hunt outside, and made all the traditional Easter foods, just not as much of them.
