More Butterflies

Mom and Katie are in town this week and we are taking advantage of their being here and going out to revisit some of the old-stand-by places here in Penang.  Yesterday we went back to the Penang Butterfly farm and had a really great time.

Emily showed us how to catch butterflies while Arvescito showed us his newest trick of palm eating and spent the morning without crying once!   It's really a feat.

As the day passed on, Emily became quite adept at catching butterflies, and we were all impressed by how gentle she was with them.  She would catch them and open their wings . . . and just when you would think she was going to rip the poor creature apart . . .

she would wind up and throw them up into the air over her head.  We would all breathe a sigh of relief that she spared another butterfly.

She was even able to catch two at a time a few times.  As you can see here, Grandma and Aunt Katie were quite impressed.

Emily also taught aunt Katie how to hold giant Malaysian Millipedes . . . even though I know they don't bite they still freak me out.  Anything with more than 4 legs should be left alone in my book, so I bravely let Emily first . . .

Emboldened by seeing her two year-old niece survive, Katie bravely put one on her palm and let all 1000+ legs crawl around on her.  Gross!