Storybook Forest

The Botanical Gardens put a summer Exhibit in its Enchanted Forest.

The first time we visited was with the cousins, and Tim's sister Melissa.

It was a blast! It was also more than enough to do it one day.

We couldn't believe how much they had packed in there to do.

Normally visiting the children's world of wonders i enough, but we crammed both areas into one visit. This post will be dedicated only to the first half of our visit.





We began by watching airplanes.



This is generally Mac's favorite part of the trip. He loves to listen to the control tower, and to see the planes take off. Landings are a bonus.






All of the boys seemed pretty enamored with the planes.

















The first story was of Jack and the Bean Stalk.

This was actually my favorite of the forest.



They had a great vegetable garden growing!















It was neat to see a real life tall beanstalk, and it was cute how they put together the garden.









There were pumpkins and tomatoes, squashes, and eggplants too. I was too tempted to pick and eat.


































Alice in Wonderland had the Mad Hatter's house. Malcolm would have stayed and had a tea party all afternoon if we didn't have other places to go.










There was the three little pigs, and then Little Red Riding Hood.








There was the Crooked Man, and Old Mother Hubbard.














































Then there was Old MacDonald.















I loved that they recycled old tires into a horse swing. This really is an ingenious little park. I wish they were keeping it up year round.


















By the time we rushed through to see all of the stories, it was lunch time, and we were all getting tired. But we were ready to go play in the water! More to come...